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<onlyinclude>The '''farad''' is a unit of [[capacitance]], named after physicist Michael Faraday, used to describe storage of charge in [[capacitor]]s.</onlyinclude><ref>WhatIs.com. (2015, Mar.7). ''What is a Farad'' [Online]. Available: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/farad-F</ref> The unit for the farad is [[coulomb]]s per [[volt]] (C/V). This describes a case of two oppositely charge plates, each with a coulomb of charge, and a [[voltage|potential difference]] of one volt between them. | <onlyinclude>The '''farad''' is a [[units|unit]] of [[capacitance]], named after physicist Michael Faraday, used to describe storage of charge in [[capacitor]]s.</onlyinclude><ref>WhatIs.com. (2015, Mar.7). ''What is a Farad'' [Online]. Available: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/farad-F</ref> The unit for the farad is [[coulomb]]s per [[volt]] (C/V). This describes a case of two oppositely charge plates, each with a coulomb of charge, and a [[voltage|potential difference]] of one volt between them. | ||
A farad is a ''large'' capacitance for most capacitors. Typically electronic applications of capacitors deal with capacitance in the [[prefixes|pico]]farads (10<sup>-12</sup> F) to [[prefixes|micro]]farads (10<sup>-6</sup> F), however usage of capacitors range all the way up to kilofarads (1000 F).<ref>Battery University. ''BU-209: Supercapacitor'' [Online]. Available: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/whats_the_role_of_the_supercapacitor</ref> | A farad is a ''large'' capacitance for most capacitors. Typically electronic applications of capacitors deal with capacitance in the [[prefixes|pico]]farads (10<sup>-12</sup> F) to [[prefixes|micro]]farads (10<sup>-6</sup> F), however usage of capacitors range all the way up to kilofarads (1000 F).<ref>Battery University. ''BU-209: Supercapacitor'' [Online]. Available: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/whats_the_role_of_the_supercapacitor</ref> | ||
Revision as of 19:53, 28 August 2015
The farad is a unit of capacitance, named after physicist Michael Faraday, used to describe storage of charge in capacitors.[1] The unit for the farad is coulombs per volt (C/V). This describes a case of two oppositely charge plates, each with a coulomb of charge, and a potential difference of one volt between them.
A farad is a large capacitance for most capacitors. Typically electronic applications of capacitors deal with capacitance in the picofarads (10-12 F) to microfarads (10-6 F), however usage of capacitors range all the way up to kilofarads (1000 F).[2]
References
- ↑ WhatIs.com. (2015, Mar.7). What is a Farad [Online]. Available: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/farad-F
- ↑ Battery University. BU-209: Supercapacitor [Online]. Available: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/whats_the_role_of_the_supercapacitor