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How to measure capacitance?

I don't know how to measure the capacitance of a capacitor accurately but I can estimate the
capacitance of a capacitor near to the actual value with cheap parts.
All you need to do is to connect a resistor with known value( in Mega ohm), a digital
multimeter and the capacitor which is going to be measured in parallel.
Before you connect the capacitor with the resistor and the multimeter in parallel,
charge the capacitor with a known constant voltage source(battery work best). After the
capacitor is fully charged, prepare a stopwatch and let the stopwatch start counting as soon as
you connected the capacitor in parallel.
Set a voltage reference in such a way that you stop the stopwatch counting after you observed
the value of the voltage reference displayed by the multimeter , ie 100mV. Record the time
taken. Record the data as follows:
Initial Voltage, Vo = voltage of power source, in Volt
Resistance, R = Resistance of the resistor used, in ohm
Final voltage, V = voltage reference, in Volt
Time taken, t = The time when the stopwatch stop counting, in seconds
Then use the formula V = Vo x e^(-t/CR)
ln(V) = ln(Vo)-t/CR
ln(V/Vo) = -t/CR
ln(Vo/V) = t/CR
Finally,
C = t/[ln(Vo/V)R], in Farad
Since the capacitor and multimeter have internal resistance, the measured value will be
slightly differ from the actual value. I tried it before and it does estimate the capacitance of an
unknown capacitor.

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