Is electric potential and capacitance class 12 a hard chapter?
Is electric potential and capacitance class 12 a hard chapter?
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This chapter covers the concepts of potential, capacitors, and potential energy. It is considered as one of the easy chapter of the class 12 Physics.
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It is the farad (F). The name came from Michael Faraday. SI Unit of Capacitance means the ability of a system to store an electric charge. One farad is the capacitance of a device that needs one coulomb of charge to provide one volt potential difference across it. Mathematically, it is represented by - 1 Farad = 1 Coulomb/Volt.
In JEE Main Physics, electric potential and capacitance chapter has a weightage of 3% to 6%. You can expect around 1 or 2 questions from this chapter which carries 4 to 8 marks.
In NEET Physics exam, the chapter electric potential and capacitance carries a weightage of 2% to 5%, which means you can expect one question out of 45 questions.
The ability to do work on a charge is called the electric potential and the ability to store charge is termed as the capacitance.
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