Worksheets
Worksheet – Charged Plates and Capacitors
Worksheet Solutions – Charged Plates and Capacitors
Media
How Capacitors Work (3:32)
Capacitors can store energy even after an electronic device has been turned off. The capacitors inside TVs (especially old CRT TV’s) are large enough to cause serious injury.
How to Discharge TV Capacitors Safely (1:23)
Capacitor Explosions (1:11)
Blowing up Capacitors at 187,000FPS (12:51 – watch from 2:54 to 4:15)
Samsung uses notoriously bad capacitors in the power supplies for their TV’s. They frequently die long before the rest of the TV starts to fail. As a result, there are lots of videos explaining how to replace a blown capacitor on a Samsung TV.
Fixing the Blown Capacitor in Samsung TV Yourself (2:32)