Advanced Placement • College • High School / Physics
Series and Parallel Capacitors
Students use a capacitance meter to measure the equivalent capacitance in simple series and parallel circuits and determine the equivalent capacitance of capacitors connected in series and parallel.
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Standards Correlations
| IB Topics | AP Topics |
|---|---|
| 11.3 | 4.E.5.3; 5.B.9.5 |
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