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Capacitance is the ability of a body to store an electric charge, and there are two types: self capacitance and mutual capacitance. Any object that can be electrically charged has self capacitance. Capacitance depends only on the geometry of the design, like the area and distance between plates, and the permittivity of the dielectric material between the plates. The SI unit of capacitance is the farad, named after Michael Faraday, with 1 farad being the capacitance required to store 1 coulomb of charge with a potential difference of 1 volt.

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Babacapacitance Is The Ability of A Body To Store An

Capacitance is the ability of a body to store an electric charge, and there are two types: self capacitance and mutual capacitance. Any object that can be electrically charged has self capacitance. Capacitance depends only on the geometry of the design, like the area and distance between plates, and the permittivity of the dielectric material between the plates. The SI unit of capacitance is the farad, named after Michael Faraday, with 1 farad being the capacitance required to store 1 coulomb of charge with a potential difference of 1 volt.

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babaCapacitance is the ability of a body to store an electric charge.

There are two closely related


notions of capacitance: self capacitance and mutual capacitance, that are usually both designated
by the same term capacitance. A material with a large self capacitance holds more electric charge at
a given voltage, than one with low capacitance. Any object that can be electrically charged exhibits
self capacitance. The notion of mutual capacitance is particularly important for understanding the
operations of the capacitor, one of the three fundamental electronic components (along
with resistors and inductors).
The capacitance is a function only of the geometry of the design (e.g. area of the plates and the
distance between them) and the permittivity of the dielectric material between the plates of the
capacitor. For many dielectric materials, the permittivity and thus the capacitance, is independent of
the potential difference between the conductors and the total charge on them.
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.[1]

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