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Real capacitor — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. 10m1.0e+2m1101001k10k10k100k1M10M100M1Gfrequency (hertz)impedance magnitude (ohms)1/(ωC), the symbol's promise10% off above 4.69 MHzinductive above 14.5 MHz30 mΩ — the floor the resistance setssolved, then checked — the part as three elementsa capacitor below 14.5 MHz, an inductor above

    The capacitor that is an inductor

    A hundred-nanofarad capacitor follows 1/(2πfC) for four decades and then turns round and climbs. Above 14.5 MHz it is an inductor, and a decade past that its impedance is ninety-nine times what its capacitance predicts — all of it caused by about a nanohenry of lead and via that nobody chose and nobody drew.

    rung 2 · frequency

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