Day 16

 Capacitors 

In this experiment, the capacitance was calculated through the Capacitance equivalent formulas for capacitors in series and in parallel.  After calculations the capacitors were than measured.

The following equations display how capacitors are combined with the displayed calculations above.

The HomeMade Capacitor and Dielectric.

In this experiment, we utilized foil paper to act as a capacitor while the paper in-between will act as a dielectric.  The area of the foil paper was kept constant as the thickness of the paper change in each procedure.  We expected the capacitance to decrease as the thickness of our papered dielectric increased.

At different thickness the voltmeter was utilized to help calculate the capacitance.

The above picture is the data we collected of the capacitance in comparison with the change in distance.  After obtaining the capacitance at one point, we were able to calculate the k constant of the material, 3.49.  Our value for k was determined to be true since it fell was fairly close to our accepted value of 3.49.

The graph above shows how capacitance is inversely related to distance.  This can be seen in formula for a capacitor with a dielectric.