Surface Charge Density Converter

About This Tool

This Surface Charge Density Converter is a tool for physics and electrical engineering. It converts units of surface charge density, which describes the quantity of electric charge per unit area on a surface. The base unit is coulombs per square meter (C/m²).

This measurement is fundamental for analyzing the charge on conductive plates (like in a capacitor), the surfaces of charged objects, and is used to calculate the electric fields near these surfaces.

Tips & Features

• The C/m² Standard: The coulomb per square meter (C/m²) is the SI unit for surface charge density. It measures how densely electric charge is packed onto a two-dimensional surface.
• Application: Surface charge density (often denoted by σ) is a critical value for calculating the electric field between the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor.