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As capacitance means the ability of storing charge then its unit should be Joule then why you called its unit farad?
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∙ 14y ago
I hear you saying that "joule" should be a unit of "ability"; that's pretty slippery.
"Joule" is a unit of energy. The capacitor does store energy.
The energy stored in a capacitor is [ 1/2 C V2 ], measured in joules.
' C ' is the capacitance, in farads.
' V ' is the voltage across the capacitor, in volts.
You can see that a larger capacitance (more farads), when charged to a smaller voltage,
stores the same amount of energy. So the joules of energy stored in the capacitor
depends on the capacitance and the voltage across it.
The same energy can be stored in capacitors with different values of capacitance.
In fact, the same capacitor can store different amountsof energy ... more or less joules
at different times.
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Capacitance.
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What is the difference between capacitor and capacitance?
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Define capacitance with respect to physical structure and electrical function?
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The ability of a conductor to take on a charge is called its?
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What is diffusion capacitance in pn junction?
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What is the effect of dielectric on the capacitance of a capacitor?
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The capacitance won't change, or it won't change significantly. The capacitance is simply the charge/voltage ratio - and if the charge doubles, the voltage will also double. Capacitance is determined by the physical properties of the capacitor (plate separation, plate area, and dielectric). The unit for capacitance (farad) is a coulomb per volt. So the capacitance is the amount of charge (coulombs) that the plates will hold at a given voltage.
What is the ratio of capacitance of capacitors?
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What is an importance of capacitance?
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