What is the SI unit of measurement for capacitance (defined as the ability of a body to store an electrical charge)?
Farad which is the daraf. The abfarad (abbreviated abF) is an obsolete CGS unit of capacitance equal to farads (1 gigafarad, GF). The statfarad (abbreviated statF) is a rarely used CGS unit equivalent to the capacitance of a capacitor with a charge of 1 statcoulomb across a potential difference of 1 statvolt. It is 1/(10"c") farad, approximately 1.1126 picofarads. Farad The farad (symbol: F) is the SI derived unit of electrical capacitance, the ability of a body to store an electrical charge. It is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday. One farad is defined as the capacitance across which, when
Capacitance In electrical circuits, the term "capacitance" is usually a shorthand for the "mutual capacitance" between two adjacent conductors, such as the two plates of a capacitor. However, for an isolated conductor, there also exists a property called "self-capacitance", which is the amount of electric charge that must be added to an isolated conductor to raise its electric potential by one unit (i.e. one volt, in most measurement systems). The reference point for this potential is a theoretical hollow conducting sphere, of infinite radius, with the conductor centered inside this sphere. Mathematically, the "self-capacitance" of a conductor is defined by where