042114 Physics 4b

Experiment: Making a capacitor out of aluminum paper 

Aluminum sheet apparatus 

Due to the nature of the papers we calculated the k constant of paper. The K value was 3.5 which is correct because 1 would be a vacuum. The chart to the left displays the calculation of the capacitance of the aluminum sheet. The calculated C = K*epsilon*Area/ distance between the sheets.  

The graph displays the capacity versus distance between the sheets.  The graph means that the closer the distance the higher the capacitance. The is with a full area of aluminum (area calculated above)

The graph is similar to the graph with full area. The difference between this graph and the previous would be the amount of capacitance is less.

Two capacitors 

Good note for Capcitors would be that in parallel they add and in series they inverse add = (1/Cend= 1/C1 +1/C2)