Capacitor Identification Experiment Report

What do you learn in a capacitor lab?

In this part of the lab you will be given 3 di erent capacitors, jumping wires, a breadboard, a multimeter and a capacimeter. You will investigate how capacitors behave in series and parallel and how voltages are distributed in capacitor circuits. With the given materials, complete the following tasks:

How can I learn about capacitance?

Introduction Doing some simple experiments, including making and measuring your own capacitor, will help you better understand the phenomenon of capacitance.

How do you test a capacitor?

At your lab station, there should be a small (2.0 nF) capacitor mounted on a plastic carrier. Connect one terminal of this capacitor to the negative tab of your capacitor. Connect another wire to the other terminal of the 2 nF capacitor, but do not yet connect it to your capacitor. We’ll call this the ”test wire”.

How do you measure capacitance if a capacitor has a dielectric?

So large, in fact, that most capacitance measurements use microFarads ( F), nano (nF), and picoFarads (pF) as their unit of measure. The capacitance of a capacitor lled with a dielectric is given by C = C0, where C0 = Q= V0 is the capacitance in the absence of the dielectric, and is the dielectric constant.

How is capacitance determined in a capacitor?

For a capacitors are electronic the capacitance depends on the physical and geometrical proprieties of the device. It is given operationally by the ratio of the charge Q stored in the device and the voltage difference across the device ΔV. The schematic symbol of a capacitor is two parallel lines which represent the capacitor plates.

How to find the unknown capacitance of a capacitor C2 (Rainbow)?

By taking measurements of voltage is possible to find the unknown capacitance of a capacitor C2. Step 3. Connect the unknown capacitor C2 (rainbow) in series with the C1 = 0.1 μF capacitor and to the power supply. 13. Measure the voltages across each capacitors 14. Find the capacitance of the unknown capacitor.