How To Connect Two Capacitors Together. Jan 13 2010. The thought experiment is usually described as follows.
If only two capacitors are involved use this calculation. If you introduced a small resistor call it the switch contact resistance you can derive a formula that predicts the final voltage across the capacitors. For example the total capacitance of two 100 μF capacitors is 50 μF.
Just connect in parallel and add the two sizes together.
This energy can be retrieved at a later time for a variety of uses. The reason being the top plate of capacitor C1 is coupled to the upper plate of C2 that is attached to the upper plate of C3 and so forth. Connecting capacitors in parallel means that the positive plates are connected together and the negative plates are connected together. If those two terminals are connected together because you now have a situation where the potential difference across one capacitor is not the same as the potential difference across the other capacitor current will flow between those two terminals with an equal current between the other two terminal until the potential difference across.
