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Alternating current circuits may develop resistance, inductance, and capacitance. What is the unit of measure for expressing capacitance?

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Question 1 of 27070

Alternating current circuits may develop resistance, inductance, and capacitance. What is the unit of measure for expressing capacitance?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Capacitance is a basic electrical property related to how much electric charge can be stored per volt of potential difference. • Each electrical property has a specific unit of measure in the International System of Units (SI): resistance, conductance, inductance, and capacitance all use different units. • Know the common pairs: resistance–ohms, inductance–henrys, conductance–mhos (or siemens), and capacitance–(?)

💭 Think About

• Match each choice with the electrical quantity it usually represents. Which one is associated with charge storage in an electric field? • Think about basic electronics: in a simple DC or AC circuit, which component is a capacitor, and what unit is printed on capacitors? • Eliminate answers you recognize as units of resistance, conductance, or inductance. What unit is left that is tied to how much charge can be stored at a given voltage?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be sure you can pair resistance with its correct unit before eliminating that choice. • Recall which unit name is commonly written with the symbol H for inductors; do not choose that one for capacitance. • Identify the unit name that is printed on physical capacitors (often with prefixes like micro-, nano-, or pico-). That is the one used for capacitance.

Question 1 of 27070

Alternating current circuits may develop resistance, inductance, and capacitance. What is the unit of measure for expressing capacitance?

ohms

mhos

henrys

farads

Question 1 / 270705eccefa3bacbc34ba4d47e50

Question 1 of 270705eccefa3bacbc34ba4d47e50

Alternating current circuits may develop resistance, inductance, and capacitance. What is the unit of measure for expressing capacitance?

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Question 1 of 27070

Alternating current circuits may develop resistance, inductance, and capacitance. What is the unit of measure for expressing capacitance?