# CAPACITORS

Department of Defense PIN 39987 CAPACITORS 1964 DEFINES ELECTROSTATIC FIELD AND DIELECTRIC. DESCRIBES AIR, PAPER, OIL, ELECTROLYTIC, AND CERAMIC TYPE CAPACITORS AS TO THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL USAGE. THE UNIT FOR MEASURING CAPACITORS, THE "FARAD", IS STATED AND EXAMPLES OF COMPUTING CAPACITANCE ARE GIVEN. THE FACTORS OF DIELECTRIC, PLATE AREA, AND DISTANCE BETWEEN PLATES WHICH AFFECT THE VALUE OF CAPACITANCE ARE PRESENTED, AND THE NARRATOR DISCUSSES THEIR EFFECTS ON CAPACITANCE. DEFINES VOLTAGE RATING AND EXPLAINS THE FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE VOLTAGE RATINGS OF CAPACITORS..

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1965
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.39987)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.