Definition:Statfarad

Definition

The statfarad is the CGS unrationalised electrostatic unit of capacitance.

It is defined as being the amount of capacitance of a capacitor between the plates of which an electric potential of $1$ statvolt appears when it stores $1$ statcoulomb of electric charge.

Symbol

$\mathrm {statF}$

The symbol for the statfarad is $\mathrm {statF}$.

Its $\LaTeX$ code is \mathrm {statF} .

Also known as

The statfarad is also known as the electrostatic unit of capacitance, abbreviated $\mathrm {e.s.u.}$.

In older texts, the unit may be rendered as the centimetre, reflecting its dimension in the CGS-ESU (electrostatic cgs) absolute system of units .

Source of Name

This entry was named for Michael Faraday.

Linguistic Note

The word statfarad is a shortened form of abstatfarad, where the idea was that the prefix abstat should stand for absolute electrostatic and mean belonging to the CGS-ESU (electrostatic cgs) absolute system of units.