What is the capacitance of the vessicle

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Assume a spherical membrane vesicle of diameter 50nm( about the size of a synaptic vesicle), and suppose that the typical electrical capacitance of biomembrane per unit surface area is c=0.01F/m^2.

What is the capacitance of the vessicle, assuming that the surface area of a sphere is A=4πr^2( with r equal the radius of the sphere)?

Reference no: EM13494392

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