Unraveling capacitors

From the NYCResistor crew comes this action-packed crash-course in capacitors – complete with a cliffhanger ending! Here’s hoping the saga continues with a miniature rescue mission via shrink ray (they must have one in their somewhere, right?)

If after that, cap functionality still seems a bit fuzzy, check out this rather helpful little web demonstration from Molecuar Expressions.

… and of course there’s always this guy –

;)