Measurement unit: terafarad

Full name: terafarad

Plural form: terafarads

Category type: capacitance

Scale factor: 1000000000000




SI unit: farad

The SI derived unit for capacitance is the farad.
1 farad is equal to 1.0E-12 terafarad.



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Definition: Terafarad

The SI prefix "tera" represents a factor of 1012, or in exponential notation, 1E12.

So 1 terafarad = 1012 farads.

The definition of a farad is as follows:

The farad (symbol F) is the SI unit of capacitance (named after Michael Faraday). A capacitor has a value of one farad when one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across it. Its equivalent expressions in other SI units are: Since the farad is a very large unit, values of capacitors are usually expressed in microfarads (?F), nanofarads (nF), or picofarads (pF). The picofarad is comically called a "puff" in laboratory usage.


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