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Re: Joules

Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Jeff,

J = 1/2 x C x V^2

Where:

J is the energy in Joules
C is the capacitance in Farads
V is the voltage in volts

So a 50nF cap charged to 5000 volts works out to:

1/2 x 50e-9 x 5000 = 0.625 Joules

cheers,

	Terry




At 02:47 AM 3/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi  All
>
>  can someone tell me what the formula is  to convert voltage and
>capacitance to Joules.
>
>               thanks.                    jeff......
>