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  2. Farad - Wikipedia

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    The statfarad (abbreviated statF) is a rarely used CGS unit equivalent to the capacitance of a capacitor with a charge of 1 statcoulomb across a potential difference of 1 statvolt. It is 1/(10 −5 c 2) farad, approximately 1.1126 picofarads. More commonly, the centimeter (cm) is used, which is equal to the statfarad.

  3. Capacitance - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit of capacitance is the farad (symbol: F), named after the English physicist Michael Faraday. [2] A 1 farad capacitor, when charged with 1 coulomb of electrical charge, has a potential difference of 1 volt between its plates. [3] The reciprocal of capacitance is called elastance.

  4. Performance and modelling of AC transmission - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit of capacitance is the farad (symbol: F), named after the English physicist Michael Faraday. A 1 farad capacitor, when charged with 1 coulomb of electrical charge, has a potential difference of 1 volt between its plates. [17] The reciprocal of capacitance is called elastance.

  5. Capacitor - Wikipedia

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    An ideal capacitor is characterized by a constant capacitance C, in farads in the SI system of units, defined as the ratio of the positive or negative charge Q on each conductor to the voltage V between them: [23] = A capacitance of one farad (F) means that one coulomb of charge on each conductor causes a voltage of one volt across the device. [25]

  6. Capacitor types - Wikipedia

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    This supercapacitor has roughly 5000 times higher capacitance than the 4700/10 electrolytic capacitor but 1 ⁄ 4 of the voltage and has about 66,000 mWs (0.018 Wh) stored electrical energy, [64] approximately 100 times higher energy density (40 to 280 times) than the electrolytic capacitor.

  7. Electricity - Wikipedia

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    The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after Michael Faraday, and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a potential difference of one volt when it stores a charge of one coulomb. A capacitor connected to a voltage supply initially causes a current as it accumulates charge; this current will however decay in time as ...

  8. Zero state response - Wikipedia

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    1 Zero state response and zero ... where C is the capacitance, measured in farads, of the capacitor. ... By using the capacitance of 1 farad as shown in the ...

  9. Applications of capacitors - Wikipedia

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    The start capacitor is typically mounted to the side of the motor housing. These are called capacitor-start motors, and have relatively high starting torque. There are also capacitor-run induction motors which have a permanently connected phase-shifting capacitor in series with a second winding. The motor is much like a two-phase induction motor.