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Re: The unit of a "Faraday"
The faraday is a constant and can be defined as the unit of electrical charge
carried by an Avogadro's number of unit charges. According to my old but trusty
Mechanical Engineer's Handbook (Marks, et al), its value is 96,500
Coulombs (only
approximate, since the exact value depends on the method of measurement).
The unit
is used in electro-chemistry technology.
Federico Price
Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: Brent L Caldwell <stretchmonster-at-juno-dot-com>
>
> Adam:
>
> Regarding the unit or constant "Faraday", you may very well be
right. I
> have to admit I can't recall seeing any mainstream literature referring
> to charge in "Faradays" rather than "Coulombs".
> However, my source of the information I gave was an old
engineer's table
> on unit conversions. It explicitly told how to convert "Faradays" into
> "Coulombs" and back. Other than that, I really don't have any reliable
> knowledge about it -- it was just my two cents' worth.
> Oh, and no I did not forget Faraday's law of induction :-)
>
> Brent
>
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