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What is a filter capacitor?

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Capacitor has many applications in electronics circuits, one of its application is in FILTERS.

Mainly two types of Filters are formed with the help of capacitor namely,

i)Low Pass Filter(LPF)

ii)High Pass Filter(HPF)

Impedance of capacitor is inversely propotional to the frequency, therefore a capacitor in series with resistor will act as Low Pass Filter. since all the high frequency are passed to ground.

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