Eli5 Why is one Farad an impractically large unit? 1 Coloumb of charge is technically the electric charge of 6.24 10e18 charge carriers. And one Farad is by definition this much amount of charge stored across a potential difference of one volt. If related what are Supercapacitors, their application?
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If you are working in amps and volts and seconds, which are very common and useful real-world quantities, coulombs and farads give you a 1:1 relationship between those. No need to scale or convert by a factor you’d either need to remember, look up, or approximate. While the farad ratings of common capacitors look complex because they are frequently uf instead of f, the math is much simpler this way.
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