Product Summary
This lab explores the effect of varying plate distances and insulating dielectric materials in a variable flat plate capacitor.
The electrometer used in this experiment allows you to measure the voltage across the capacitor plates, without discharging the capacitor, since it has an internal resistance of 1014 ohms.
Topics Covered
- Capacitance
- Parallel Plate Capacitor
- Factors Affecting Capacitance
What's Included
Data Collection Software
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Interface Required
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Experiments
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College / Physics
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate how the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor varies when the plate separation is changed and to qualitatively see the effect of introducing a dielectric material between the...
