Thursday, November 6, 2014

Blowing up a Capacitor, Creating a Capacitor

Blowing up a Capacitor

When you connect a capacitor you should always make sure to connect the positive side to the positive side and the negative side to the negative side.  If you do not do this then the capacitor will BLOW UP!!!!!!!!!




Creating a Capacitor



Two identical sheets of aluminum foil were cut and placed in between a piece of paper in a book.  We connected a multimeter to the sheets of aluminum and measured the value of the capacitance.  We increased the number of papers between the aluminum foil and measured the values of the capacitance.  After finding the capacitance we solved for the K (dielectric) value and saw that as we increased the distance between the pieces of aluminum, we increased the dielectric values.  






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