My Textbook states"The same principle behind Faraday’s ice pail experiment is used in a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator (Fig. 22.26). A charged belt continuously carries charge to the inside of a conducting shell. By Gauss’s law, there can never be any charge on the inner surface of this...
My textbook states:
"The magnitude of charge of the electron or proton is a natural unit of charge."
and then has an explanation that follows. It states, "...The charge on any macroscopic body is always either zero or an integer multiple (negative or positive) of the electron charge."
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I understand algebraically that when capacitors are in series, the total capacitance is less than any individual capacitance, but I do not understand this intuitively. How can this be possible? Shouldn't more capacitors equal more capacitance?
I was answering the question, "Since electric potential is always proportional to potential energy, why bother with the concept of potential at all?"
I answered that this is because Electric Potential Energy requires a test charge to calculate, Electric Potential is present without a test...