Hi Tom,

I have submited your question to some brains in my club and I will send the
answers to the list.  I think that we can all learn from this.

73 Keith-WA9DRO

At 12:01 PM 2/15/03 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm studying for my test this week and have what appears to me to be a pretty
>basic question but cannot find the answer to it.  One of the things said to
>determine capacitance is one side of one of the plates.  Do I assume that
>if we
>have something like a tuning cap with multiple plates such as in old radio
>tuners that this is treated as a series?  Second, when they say one side
>of one
>of the plates I'm assuming that means the side toward another plate.  My
>question is does that mean the smaller plate (if that apples) or does it mean
>the plate with the smallest area overlapping the other plate?
>
>Sorry if I'm being a little slow with this but I just don't seem to be able to
>find that particular question answered.  Even the ARRL book I've got just
>quotes
>from the question in the pool as an explanation.
>
>Tom
>
>
>Tom Brennan, CCC-A/SLP, RHD
>web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

Keith-WA9DRO
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