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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Farad

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the unit in which CAPACITANCE is measured. It is usually denoted by the symbol F. For example, the capacitance (C) of a conductor measured in farads is the charge (in coulombs) needed to raise the potential by one volt i.e. 1 farad = 1 coulomb per volt (1F = 1 CV-1). As the farad itself is usually too large a quantity for most applications, the practical unit is the microfarad (µF), or one millionth of a farad.

Taken from Dictionary of Science

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The farad (symbol: F) is the SI unit of capacitance. The term farad is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday.

A farad is the charge in coulombs a capacitor will accept for the potential across it to change 1 volt. A coulomb is 1 ampere second. Example: A 47 mA current causes the voltage across a capacitor to increase 1 volt per second. It therefore has a capacitance of 47 mF. It has the base SI representation of s4·A2·m-2·kg-1. Further equalities follow:


\mbox{F} = \,\mathrm \frac{A \cdot s}{V} = \dfrac{\mbox{J}}{\mbox{V}^2} = \dfrac{\mbox{C}}{\mbox{V}} = \dfrac{\mbox{C}^2}{\mbox{J}} = \dfrac{\mbox{C}^2}{\mbox{N} \cdot \mbox{m}} = \dfrac{\mbox{s}^2 \cdot \mbox{C}^2}{\mbox{m}^{2} \cdot \mbox{kg}} = \dfrac{\mbox{s}^4 \cdot \mbox{A}^2}{\mbox{m}^{2} \cdot \mbox{kg}} = \dfrac{\mbox{s}}{\Omega}


The most commonly used multiples and submultiples in electrical and electronic usage are the microfarad, nanofarad and picofarad.


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Friday, January 15, 2010

Calorie

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a unit of quantity of heat defined as that heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water through 1°C. Nowadays, it has largely been replaced by the JOULE (1 calorie = 4.186 joules).

Taken from Dictionary of Science

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The calorie is a pre-SI metric unit of energy. The unit was first defined by Professor Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat. This definition entered French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867. In most fields its use is archaic, having been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule. However, in many countries it remains in common use as a unit of food energy. The kilocalorie per mole remains in use in computational chemistry and molecular spectroscopy.


Definitions vary but are all based on the specific heat capacity of water. The gram calorie, approximately 4.2 J, is based on one gram of water. The kilogram calorie, equal to one thousand gram calories, is based on one kilogram of water. In the context of nutrition, and especially food labelling, a larger unit is used and referred to interchangeably by the terms calorie (or Calorie) and kilocalorie.


Taken from Wikipedia