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Originally Posted by Xringer
So, if I had a 10,000 farad capacitor charged up to 9 Volts and I connected a 9 ohm resistor across it, I wouldn't get 1 Amp of current flow when I flipped the switch?
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No. If you look at instantaneous current flow, it will follow the same exponential decay curve as that voltage plot. You'd have a current flow of many amps for the first fraction of a second, declining to a fraction of an amp after several seconds. A battery would supply nearly constant current/voltage until it's depleted.