EEVblog 1618 - The Equation For Energy In A Capacitor

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  • How To Derive The Equation For Energy In A Capacitor, E = 1/2 C.V²
    NOTE: Re-edited from an old impromptu video to remove all unrelated stuff about the dumpster whiteboard I found.
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  • @filips7158
    @filips7158 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

    "Clear as mud?" - I laugned so hard at this. If we are being rigorous, every single line was mathematically questionable, yet the result is correct. Man I love EE

  • @EE_Overload
    @EE_Overload 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +37

    Oh, how i miss videos like these!

  • @AlanTwoRings
    @AlanTwoRings 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +26

    Video is titled "The Equation For Charge In A Capacitor" but you gave us the equation for Energy in a capacitor. The equation for charge is just Q=CV.

    • @EEVblog
      @EEVblog  23 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      Damn, title brain fart

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@EEVblog - Does the same equation and linearity apply in super-caps too?

  • @brooklyndrive
    @brooklyndrive 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Thanks Dave, I work as an ER doctor but was a telco tech in my younger days.
    I often think of this when turning a defibrillator on!

  • @Artopiumcom
    @Artopiumcom 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Short and SWEET! Clear as mud on a rainy day!

  • @afourtrackmind
    @afourtrackmind 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Eff the algorithm!
    I love these short videos!

  • @IanScottJohnston
    @IanScottJohnston 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    OMG....this takes me back to school! They made a big point of deriving where all the equations came from.

    • @WilhelmEley
      @WilhelmEley 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Which means you went to a good school!
      Though I expected he'd do it from first principles (maxwell's equations), which would also be possible in the video length

  • @amirmoezz
    @amirmoezz 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Very short and educative, Love it.

  • @charlesvanneste2834
    @charlesvanneste2834 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    These are great! I would love to hear EEVblogs take on a capacitor discharging into another capacitor and where the lost energy goes (aka his take on the two capacitor paradox)

  • @keithking1985
    @keithking1985 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow, that was quick and to point and bloody awesome 👍🇮🇪🙏

  • @benschwald4029
    @benschwald4029 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for the educational videos

  • @RalphWu55
    @RalphWu55 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Love your work

  • @michaelpiotrowicz6100
    @michaelpiotrowicz6100 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks Dave, this is great

  • @radekhladik7895
    @radekhladik7895 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Its funny to see him try to avoid the integration so hard.... But as soon as you see 1/2*c*x^2, be sure that it is the integration of linear function - kinetic energy, freefall, acceleration,....

  • @ats89117
    @ats89117 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    You're kind of proving the given there. Real men start with Maxwell's Equations!

  • @nithingovindaraj7394
    @nithingovindaraj7394 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Need more videos like this

  • @KeritechElectronics
    @KeritechElectronics 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Back to the basics!

  • @mahmoudgaber5347
    @mahmoudgaber5347 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    if the term C.dV/dt, representing the current charging the capacitor -as in the case here- then the dV/dt is dependent on the charging current (the current source) not the opposite. Yes mathematically I(t) = C. dV/dt, but physically you're making a cross referencing. Also according to this equation, there must be a voltage variation with time so that the capacitor can source/ sink current (dV/dt must have a value other than zero)

  • @HiltsR
    @HiltsR 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    GREAT video, some educational videos are just needed for enlightening and for people to learn, please sometimes ignore the viewer counts.

  • @gamingdojo6126
    @gamingdojo6126 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    you wrote "charge in a capacitor' on the whiteboard but it's actually the equation for energy in a capacitor :)

  • @charliesullivan4304
    @charliesullivan4304 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was expecting a teardown to assess the build quality of the whiteboard markers

  • @jasonzurlo1543
    @jasonzurlo1543 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great stuff

  • @entropyachieved750
    @entropyachieved750 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Would have loved watching these during my apprenticeship at the start of the 2000s. Also I'd use a delta (triangle) for change

  • @n.mishev
    @n.mishev 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice video

  • @ME1D
    @ME1D 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    where is the fulll video? and thanks for your effort

  • @PraxZimmerman
    @PraxZimmerman 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bro I needed this video so bad a week ago

    • @EEVblog
      @EEVblog  24 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      I'll hop in my Delorean

    • @ctrlj
      @ctrlj 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@EEVblog The Equation For Charge In A Flux Capacitor

    • @jacobeller
      @jacobeller 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@EEVblog
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    • @nameredacted1242
      @nameredacted1242 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jacobeller Nah, you are off by 39 years.

  • @jdatdeface
    @jdatdeface 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When I need this 15 years ago, I simply used equation U*C=I*T
    Question: how big capacitor I need when switching load from PSU1 to PSU2 to prevent power glitch (and restart) on load. Spreadsheet to help and done in few minutes.

  • @gigaherz_
    @gigaherz_ 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have a software engineering degree, and we did some introductory electronics on the first year. It wasn't a whole lot, but we did touch on resistors, inductors, capacitors, zener diodes, and I think we just lightly touched BJT transistors. The part that I found more of a chore was capacitor charge/discharge calculations. Not relevant to the video really, just reminded me of it.

  • @ChrisSmith-tc4df
    @ChrisSmith-tc4df 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I believe that there is a similar follow on geometric explanation as to why the effective capacitance of two equal series capacitors halves as well.

    • @GalgoczkiAdam
      @GalgoczkiAdam 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      "the separation distance, adds up" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor#/media/File:Kondensator_C1_C2_Reihe.svg

    • @keithking1985
      @keithking1985 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@GalgoczkiAdamvery cool link. 👍🇮🇪

  • @gblargg
    @gblargg 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm trying to intuitively grasp how voltage is squared. This implies that if you charge it for double the time, you get 4x the energy. Would this be because to maintain a constant current, the energy is constantly increasing? (since the constant current source has to increase voltage to maintain that current)

  • @petersage5157
    @petersage5157 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's not the energy stored in the capacitor that shocks you, it's the rapid discharge of that energy over a short time.

  • @gleradon
    @gleradon 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Now I finally understand what my high school teacher was trying to teach me.

    • @Ricard2k
      @Ricard2k 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂

  • @briansauk6837
    @briansauk6837 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Painful to not see a trivial integral to do it properly

  • @sarahmanalapan8443
    @sarahmanalapan8443 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Honestly it might help if you show the factoring out.

  • @feicodeboer
    @feicodeboer 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fortunately I still understand this ...

  • @jakubromanski2439
    @jakubromanski2439 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I havent even seen this video!!! TH-cam didnt show it to me

  • @naeemhaq3504
    @naeemhaq3504 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    nice

  • @3beltwesty
    @3beltwesty 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where are the missing volt nut ppms?

  • @jonaskuliesius6802
    @jonaskuliesius6802 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    C=q/V and V=E/q, so E=q^2/C . Hmmm(?)... Or Take E=Vq, plug in q=CV and get E=VC^2 ... I can see that he gets 1/2 from integrating dV/dt, but does that mean I'm wrong? Am I stupid?

  • @bertblankenstein3738
    @bertblankenstein3738 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Here is a question: A capacitor with a known value and charge (and therefore energy) is connected to a discharged capacitor of equal value. I assume that the charge moves such that it is now equal between the two capacitors, the voltage for each capacitor drops to half. So each capacitor has 1/4 of the initial total energy. Where did the other half of the energy go?

    • @user-dj1hy6zc6q
      @user-dj1hy6zc6q 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There's some bad math involved there. When did 1/2 * 2 = 1/4?

    • @bertblankenstein3738
      @bertblankenstein3738 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@user-dj1hy6zc6q when half the charge moves to the other capacitor, the voltage for each capacitor drops to half the initial value. If the energy is CV^2/2, you get 1/4 of the initial energy.

    • @ChrisSmith-tc4df
      @ChrisSmith-tc4df 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Why do you presume that the voltage will halve at paralleled equilibrium?

    • @alexv3780
      @alexv3780 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      If you have 1F capacitor charged with 2J energy then if you measure the voltage will be 2V. If you have 2F capacitor charged with 2J then the if you measure the voltage will be √2V. The relation between capacitance and voltage is not linear.

    • @keithking1985
      @keithking1985 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@alexv3780interesting 🤔
      The auld gray matter is sparkling after reading that. 👍🇮🇪🤔

  • @and9290
    @and9290 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This hurts my brain.

  • @3beltwesty
    @3beltwesty 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I really cannot draw any current from my unsaturated standard cells. So sad :)

  • @orencomputerelectronics8751
    @orencomputerelectronics8751 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    how to convert from J to Wh. Q(c)=It=UC => E=Q*U because when you pull current from capsitor the voltage drops from VCC up to 0V. then E=Q*U/2=>E(joul)=C*U^2/2. in hour had 3600 sec i put this and get P(Wh)=C*U^2/7200=>>>> it mean if i will use this power at one hour it take P power.

  • @TimoNoko
    @TimoNoko 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fanciest capacitor ever was two metallic plates of very precise shape. When charged enuff there is eventually spark at one corner. The spark advanced along the edge at speed of light gathering energy and tight laser beam is emitted.
    Never managed to do that even after studying the patent carefully.

  • @platin2148
    @platin2148 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I must say the algo didn‘t even show it to me.

  • @WilhelmEley
    @WilhelmEley 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I just wanted to tell you, we love you also if you don't do the mr. beast thumbnail faces.

  • @grhinson
    @grhinson 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I wonder if this will help with the TH-cam algorithm?

  • @jonnscott4858
    @jonnscott4858 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Equation Pur Energy In A Catacitor, since he's skinning a cat or Tui.

  • @frosty129
    @frosty129 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Could have posted that as an April fools educational video

  • @ArnoldSommerfeld
    @ArnoldSommerfeld 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The energy is stored in the fields, not in "the capacitor". Tell me you don't know how to calculate the energy in the fields without telling me you don't know how to calculate the energy in the fields.

  • @zlac
    @zlac 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why would you skin a cat though?

  • @xephael3485
    @xephael3485 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I hate algebra

  • @aldob5681
    @aldob5681 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    worst performer video? must see it....

  • @GermanMythbuster
    @GermanMythbuster 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    *FAKE! This is not the Real Dave!*
    Dave is physically incapable of making Videos under 10 min. This must be AI Generated. 😂

  • @sennheisermxsennheisermx
    @sennheisermxsennheisermx 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    why u look so old

  • @atheistaetherist2747
    @atheistaetherist2747 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dave haznt a clue re how a capacitor charges, & Dave (& everyone else) is even worse re a capacitor discharging.
    The actual graph(s) are nothing like what Dave (& everyone else) reckons.
    Ivor Catt explains.
    Electricity is actually elekticity.