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Virtual Lab: Resistors and Capacitors at High Voltage
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Now the potential energy stored in the capacitor is used to run the light bulb. As the energy of the capacitor decreases the light gets dimmer.

Note that the light remains lit for a longer time than it did for a single cell.

 
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