Re: general cap questions

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

Whoever wrote that definition had the chance to not sounds like a contract.
They however they picked the hot air route. Here is my version:

Farad - the basic unit of capacitance. A Farad is equal to storing one
coulomb per volt.
Capacitance - the ability to store an electrical charge by electrostatic
means.


KEN

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> Hi Ken, Adam, et.al.
> If the most basic, fundamental definitions used in TC work really seem
> meaningless or confusing, perhaps I could recommend an excellent high
school
> level physics text, such as:
> "Basic Physics" by Dr. Alexander Efron, John F. Rider Pub., NY 1957,
especially
> Chapter 17 on Electrostatics. It has many good, clear simple illustrations
and
> is written at a Flesch-Kincade level of 8.8 - 9.2.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt D.
> PS "Doc Ef" was also a good teacher)
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