Capacitance
The Farad, The Unit Of Capacitance
The unit of capacitance is the Farad, in honor of Michael Faraday's work with electrostatics. When a 1-Farad capacitance store 1 Coulomb the result will be 1 volt. The Coulomb is the basic unit of electrical charge, equal to 6.2422 × 1018 charges the size carried by an electron or by a proton.
An electrical component that introduces capacitance is called a capacitor. Practical capacitors may have as small a value as a few trillionths of a Farad or as large as several Farads.
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