English-Spanish translations for displacement current

• corriente de desplazamiento

Definition of displacement current

• The direction and rate of change of the electric displacement field at a given point of space and time. It can be expressed as a vector

Examples

• When a capacitor is charging, a current flows into one of its two plates, a displacement current flows from that plate to its other plate, and a current flows out of that other plate.

Related words

• displacement
• displacement activity
• displacement per atom
• displacement impulse
• engine displacement
• derivative of the displacement
• piston displacement
• crack opening displacement
• crack tip opening displacement