Timeline for Why do charges enter the capacitor in the first place?
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| Nov 24, 2015 at 8:39 | comment | added | jayarjo | @Ron Maimon, so you mean that if we connect two separate conductors with the lightdiods in them to the battery ends and leave the circuit open - lightdiods will still light up? :) | |
| Mar 27, 2012 at 1:25 | comment | added | Ron Maimon | @PejmanPoh: you were just taught wrong. Electrons flow in an open circuit, they just build up, and stop flowing after a little bit of time. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 9:36 | comment | added | Pejman Poh | Yes exactly Manishearth, from birth I was taught that if the circuit is incomplete, charge won't even try to flow. With a capacitor, the circuit is still incomplete and yet charge flows. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 9:21 | comment | added | Manishearth | Actually, I think the OP knows that, he's asking why the charges want to approach the capacitor in the first place. Normal charge flow happens because of a train-like effect, with a source and sink of electrons. The OP doesn't see how this works with capacitors, AFAICT. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 9:15 | history | answered | mart | CC BY-SA 3.0 |