Link: Adding Caps in Series and Parallel

[vanhansen]

Found this while doing some research.

http://www3.ltu.edu/~s_schneider/physlets/main/capacitor1.shtml

Should be helpful to some folks.  I find it pretty cool.  The only thing it doesn't do that's a bummer is show the total capacitance.

[onboard]

Thanks for the link, java applets are snazzy. Unfortunatley, that one might not be all that handy here, since the cap values only decrease to 1F  :shock:  That's huge. I think the biggest cap you'll see around these circuits is a 100uF power filter cap, or 0.000001F.

Still, it's handy to see how voltage and capacitance interact.

I think the formulas for total capacitance are in Aron's FAQ...pretty straight forward - enough so that you can "pencil-and-paper" it.