Electronics Handbook/Components/Capacitors/Parallel Connection

Capacitor connected in parallel

Two or more capacitors can be connected in parallel to increse the total capacitance

$C_{t}=C_{1}+C_{2}+....+C_{n}$

Two of the same value

${\frac {1}{C_{t}}}={\frac {1}{C}}+{\frac {1}{C}}={\frac {1}{2C}}$