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A capacitor has a charge of 30 uC (fancy u). The potential difference between the conductors is 400 is V. What is the capacitance?

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The solution explains the concept of the capacitance of a capacitor from the definition point of view, that is, capacitance is a measure of the amount of electric charge stored (or separated) for a given electric potential.

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