farad

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The farad, whose symbol is M, is the unit of capacitance and a condenser or a circuit to have a capacitance of one farad must be of such size that one coulomb, which is the unit of electrical quantity, will raise its charge to a potential of one volt.

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  1. noun The unit of capacitance in the meter-kilogram-second system equal to the capacitance of a capacitor having an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a potential difference of 1 volt between the plates. See Table at measurement.

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  • I dont co sign elijah or louise about a bunch of things .. and sounds hypocritical ... but I co sign farad mohammed. look what he was teaching blacks in the 30 s
  • So back to farad mohammed .... since Farads mission was to wake up the mentally dead. .he was dealing with the mind ov the SON of man. and understood the Mind being asleep was the first an foremost thing that needed to be awakened.
  • Another achievement that gives Faraday scientific recognition is that he is the only scientist who has two internationally used units of measurement named after him, the faraday, which is a unit of electrical quantity, and the farad, which is a unit of capacitance. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • They were "amazed" when they had a cap come out that was a whole farad! —  Autoblog Green
  • Now you see 3000 farad caps from Maxwell and others and the next generation is coming out that will be 5000-6000. —  Autoblog Green
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  1. After Michael Faraday.

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  1. So called in honor of the chemist Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867). Cf. ampere, ohm, volt.
 

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