Electrical Units
Most recent answer: 10/22/2007
Q:
How many microfarads are in a volt?
- Jason
Sarnia
- Jason
Sarnia
A:
Whoops- theres no way to answer that question. Its like asking how many pounds are there in a foot?". Theyre measures of completely different things, not different units for the same thing.
A microfarad is a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a Farad. A capacitor with a capacitance of one Farad will store one Coulomb of electrical charge (+1 Coulomb on one plate and -1 Coulomb on the other) when the voltage difference across the plates is one Volt. A Coulomb is the unit of charge passed in one second by a wire with one Ampere of current in it.
Mike W. (and Tom)
A microfarad is a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a Farad. A capacitor with a capacitance of one Farad will store one Coulomb of electrical charge (+1 Coulomb on one plate and -1 Coulomb on the other) when the voltage difference across the plates is one Volt. A Coulomb is the unit of charge passed in one second by a wire with one Ampere of current in it.
Mike W. (and Tom)
(published on 10/22/2007)