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Capacitor terminology



Leigh Palmer wrote:

Subject: misconception regarding capacitors?
Textbooks tell us that a capacitor of capacitance 1E-10 is called a
100 pF capacitor. That's not true; it's called a 100 mmf capacitor,
or at least it useta be!

Why did they use mmF instead of pF?





Steven T. Ratliff
Associate Professor of Physics
Northwestern College
3003 Snelling Av. N.
Saint Paul, MN 55113-1598

Internet: stratliff@nwc.edu (or str@nwc.edu)