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Hi! In this video I'm going to show you and I'm going to give you an easy example on what a capacitor is.

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Here you have a capacitor. It can look like this or it can look a little bit different.

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This is an electrolytic capacitor.

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A capacitor, that's a simple component that can store charge or it can store electricity.

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It's very similar to a battery in a way that you can charge it and discharge it.

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A capacitor is a really simple device.

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You can build one by having two metal plates really close to each other with a dielectric material in between.

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So let me show you how a capacitor works.

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Here I have a small circuit with an LED and a resistor and a battery connector.

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There you can see we have a blue nice light from the LED, but as soon as I remove the battery, the LED goes off.

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So what happens if we take the capacitor and we plug it in in parallel with the battery?

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Let's see. So we have the capacitor here, in parallel with the battery, and I'm connecting the battery to the circuit now.

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And then you'll see the LED lights up. But now when I remove the battery, the LED still lights, and then it fades out, and then it's gone.

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capacitor will store some charge, give some current to the circuit even though the battery

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is disconnected. The capacitor is very similar to a battery. You can charge it and discharge

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it. I hope you learned something from this video, if you have any questions or comments

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or anything just give me a comment below on the comment field. See you later, bye bye!

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Oh, my God.