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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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- A 1-farad supercapacitor. The scale behind is in inches (top) and centimetres (bottom).
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Das Farad ist die SI-Einheit der elektrischen Kapazität. Es wurde nach Michael Faraday benannt. Ein Kondensator, der durch das Aufladen auf eine Spannung von einem Volt (V) eine Ladung von einem Coulomb (C) speichert, hat eine Kapazität von einem Farad (F): . Der überwiegende Anteil von in der Elektrotechnik eingesetzten Kondensatoren weist erheblich kleinere Werte als ein Farad auf, so dass sehr häufig Angaben unter Zuhilfenahme von SI-Präfixen wie Mikrofarad (μF = 10−6 F), Nanofarad (nF = 10−9 F) und Pikofarad (pF = 10−12 F) anzutreffen sind.
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