The electric charge on these plates creates an electric field inside the capacitor. Since there is an electric field, there must also be a change in electric potential across the plates.

Well, we know the equation for the electric field generated by a point charge. But since there's no uniform field, like there would be with a capacitor, we can't use all of the equations that we ...

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The electric field is produced by electric charge on the capacitor plates. Filters use capacitors to “fill in” gaps in waveforms by giving up stored charge to the electric circuit, or to “shave off” ...

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