After completing the experiments above, two students make the following comments:
Student 1: The capacitor with two bulb’s in series got charged up a lot more than the capacitor with two bulb’s connected in parallel because the series circuit charged the capacitor for a longer period of time.”
Student 2: "I disagree, the bulbs in the parallel circuit were brighter so this capacitor gained more charge.
Do you agree with student 1, student 2, or neither? Explain your reasoning.
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