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date: 03 December 2024

farad 

Source:
A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
Author(s):

Donald Fenna

[M. Faraday; UK 1791–1867]electric capacitance. Symbol F. The farads of a capacitor equal the ratio of charge in coulombs to the rise in the potential across its plates in volts, identically the number of ampere⋅seconds per volt of rise in the potential across the plates of the capacitor. For a ... ...

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