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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Well in terms of modern micro electronics, a Farad is impractical just like an Ampere is rather impractical. They’re both based off the unit of charge (Coulomb). It is just that modern stuff don’t need to move that much charge to work.
But that is more or less a recent phenomenon (recent as in after the invention of the solid state transistor) when things used for control started using an order of magnitude less voltage and orders of magnitude less current compared to the vacuum tube.
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