Recent content by jhammin

Ya, I was thrown off by the shear number of electrons. I was also thinking too much about the individual Coulomb forces between each electron.

The charging time of capacitor depends on its energy absorption, which can be used directly to get the drift velocity. Looks like I answered my own question. I was caught up in the notion that electrons never actually enter or leave a wire. I'm not sure how i reached that idea because...

I'm having trouble understanding where the charging time in a capacitor actually comes from. Is it possible to derive the \tau of a capacitive circuit from the drift velocity of the electrons? Are charges literally moving from the conductors onto the metal plates of the capacitor?