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

$\frac{1}{C_t}=\frac{1}{C}+\frac{1}{C}=\frac{1}{2C}$