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farad

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The farad (symbol: F) is the unit of electrical capacitance, the ability of a body to store an electrical charge, in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to 1 coulomb per volt (C/V). It is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday (1791–1867). In SI base units 1 F = 1 kg−1⋅m−2⋅s4⋅A2.

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A farad is the standard unit used to measure capacitance, which is how much electrical charge something can store. It's named after the English physicist Michael Faraday and is defined as one coulomb of charge per volt of electrical potential.

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Unit.name: farad
Unit.image: 300px
Unit.caption: A 1-farad supercapacitor. The scale behind is in inches (top) and centimetres (bottom).
Unit.standard: SI
Unit.quantity: capacitance
Unit.symbol: F
Unit.namedafter: Michael Faraday
Unit.units1: SI base units
Unit.inunits1: kg−1⋅m−2⋅s4⋅A2

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unit symbol: F
Commons category: Farad
NCI Thesaurus ID: C42552

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==Definition== The capacitance of a capacitor is one farad when one coulomb of charge changes the potential between the plates by one volt. Equally, one farad can be described as the capacitance which stores a one-coulomb charge across a potential difference of one volt.