What is the International System of Units (SI) of the derived unit of electrical capacitance?
The farad (symbol: F) is the SI derived unit of electrical capacitance, the ability of a body to store an electrical charge. It is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday.
One farad is defined as the capacitance across which, when charged with one coulomb, there is a potential difference of one volt. Equally, one farad can be described as the capacitance which stores a one-coulomb charge across a potential difference of one volt.
The relationship between capacitance, charge, and potential difference is linear. For example, if the potential difference across a capacitor is halved, the quantity of charge stored by that capacitor will also be halved.
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Mark James
Have been an Electrician in Australia since 1989, used a lot of capacitors and capacitance, especially in the Industrial Maintenance side.
Ray Anderson
As an Electrical Engineering tutor for 25 years, I'd be embarrassed if I'd got this one wrong.
Kelly
I loved using the F in the equation in electronics because you multiplied the constant by one. Which means that you can thank Michael Faraday for not having to memorize anything!
Wendy Petty
Majority vote😪