Re: misconception regarding capacitors?

[Mark Sylvester <msylvest@spin.it>]

> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 18:45:34 -0800
> From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>
> To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
> Subject: misconception regarding capacitors?
> Message-ID: <l0311070ab10d5789fcee@[142.58.124.21]>
>
> 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! At least capacitors that size were never
> called condensers. Y'all remember getting a condenser in the kit
> with your new points?

Yes I do still come across mmF's but pF's are OK too. It's the nF's which
are less well known. We always called them "kilopuffs".

Mark.

Mark Sylvester
United World College of the Adriatic
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