Shorting A Capacitor

[olsenn]

If a capacitor (let's say 1uF) is shorted, does the capacitance stay the same since caps in parallel add together (like resistors in series)?  In other words, does that circuit look like a 1uF capacitor in parallel with a 0uF capacitor resultant in 1uF between those two nodes?

[fcb]

I literally have no idea what you mean.

[c4757p]

A short circuit is not equivalent to a 0uF capacitor, that's an open circuit. If a short circuit is equivalent to any sort of capacitance at all it would be infinite, because you can keep feeding it more and more current and it never charges up.

[smackaay]

It would be like an infinite capacitor with infinite leakage.

[ddavidebor]

Shorted caps are no caps anymore, they're... Shorts!

[c4757p]

Yep. A short circuit across an entire component - any component - completely removes it from the circuit. A short circuit by definition has the same voltage everywhere, so there can be no potential difference for the component to respond to. (Obviously a real short circuit is actually a very, very small resistance and inductance, but for practical purposes it doesn't matter.)