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Define capacitance of a capacitor and its SI unit.

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The capacitance of any capacitor is its ability to store charge
$C = \frac{Q}{V}$
$C =$ capacitance
$Q =$ Charge
$V =$ Potential across capacitor.
The SI unit of capacitance is farad(F).

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