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I'd plump for this one: "Capacitor complaints - Why I never really understood capacitors..." http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.
by ableal 6y ago
I'd plump for this one:
"Capacitor complaints - Why I never really understood capacitors..." http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html
Something of the kind was around here recently. I'd guess most people get resistors easily, and most people know they don't know transistors. But the apparently simple capacitor can weird out with the ideal model.
- dang 6y agoHappy to treat that one the same way as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444366. We just need to space these over a few months so it doesn't get repetitive.
- wbeaty 6y ago> most people know they don't know transistors. We don't know transistors because (guess!) WE WERE TAUGHT WRONG! http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html Latest news: apparently Shockley had to distort the explanation of the BJT transistor, saying that it was a "current amplifier," because the FET had been invented twenty years earlier, and FETs are obviously voltage-input devices. Since transistors already existed, the early Shockley transistor patents were being rejected by the patent office for "prior art." They thought the latest device was just another crystal triode invention like the FET invented by JE Lilienfeld around 1923.