Describe the charging and discharging of a capacitor

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1. Describe the difference between an ideal battery and a real battery. Describe what happens as a result of drawing too much current from a real battery. Be sure to use the terms internal resistance and terminal voltage in your response.
2. Describe the charging and discharging of a capacitor in terms of the potential difference across the capacitor and the energy stored in the capacitor. What are the limitations of capacitors as electrical energy storage devices? Be sure to use the terms time constant and exponential in your response.
3.Discuss an alternative technology for the storage or delivery of electrical energy that you have run across in researching your response to this discussion question.

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