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From: pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:04:18 +1000
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Subject: [geocentrism] modern eduPlease tell me I aint nuts. I don't use formula often, so though I instinctively say reactance is I forget the application for microfarads when the unit is Farad in this equation.
Yet just look how this formula is applied in not one but two different websites.. . Note they correctly state for this formula, C is capacitance in farads yet substitute microfarads into the equation. Isn't their answer wrong. shouldn't there be a 10^6 on the top line.
50 micro Farads = 50 x 10 to the -6th. Farads.
Or am I just too old and missing something. Can a math man please check me out? I compute the answer should be 31,250 ohms. Philip.
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Now you can understand why it is said that the XC varies inversely with the product of the frequency and capacitance. The formula is:
Where: XC is capacitive reactance in ohms, f is frequency in Hertz, C is capacitance in farads, p is 6.28 (2 X 3.1416) The following example problem illustrates the computation of X C.