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Grade 12General Physics

What is Inductance?

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17 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Sachin Tyagi
17 Years ago

If you place equal and opposite charges plus minus q on the plates of a capacitor, a potential difference V appears across them. The capacitance C of the capacitor is tehn given by  C=q/V

The Sl unit of capacitance is, as we have seen, the farad, named after Michael Faraday.

If you establish a current I in the windings of an inductor, there is a magnetic flux due to that current through the windings, and the windings are said to be linked by this shared flux. The inductance of the inductor is L=Nø/i

In whch N is a number of turns. The product Nø is called the flux  linkage.