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Capacitor Lab: NAME: - SECTION

This document contains a worksheet for a physics class on capacitors and dielectrics. It includes a table to collect data on capacitance, stored energy, electric field, and more for a capacitor simulation. It then provides conclusion and problem solving questions for students to analyze the data and solve for values like potential difference, plate area, and capacitance using the relationship between electric field and charge.

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Capacitor Lab: NAME: - SECTION

This document contains a worksheet for a physics class on capacitors and dielectrics. It includes a table to collect data on capacitance, stored energy, electric field, and more for a capacitor simulation. It then provides conclusion and problem solving questions for students to analyze the data and solve for values like potential difference, plate area, and capacitance using the relationship between electric field and charge.

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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of San Pablo City
SAN PABLO CITY SCIENCE INTEGRATED HIGH SCHOOL
Brgy. San Jose, San Pablo City

NAME: _________________________________________________ SECTION: ___________


GENERAL PHYSICS 2: FIRST QUARTER
WORKSHEET 4: CAPACITOR AND DIELECTRIC

Basic Characteristics of a Capacitor

Open the Capacitor Lab (https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/capacitor-lab)

Set the plates to the minimum area (100.0 mm2), maximum separation (10.0 mm) and
maximum positive battery voltage (1.5 V) to begin.

Using the provided meters in the simulation complete the following data table:

Plate Stored Electric Field


Separation Capacitance Plate
Trial Area Energy between
(mm) (μF) Charge (C)
(mm2) (J) plates (V/m)
1 10 300
2 9 300
3 8 300
4 7 300
5 6 300
6 5 400
7 5 350
8 5 300
9 5 250
10 5 200

CONCLUSION: Analyze the data above and answer the following questions. You may want to
create graphs to better explain relationships between variables. Attach any graphs or figures
you create with the data to explain your responses.
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WORK ON THIS!
PROBLEM SOLVING: Answer the following questions and solve for all the values needed.
Show all the necessary solutions.

1. The plates of a parallel-plate capacitor are 2.50 mm apart, and each carries a charge
of magnitude 80.0 nC. The plates are in vacuum. The electric field between the
plates has a magnitude of 4.00 x 106 V/m. (a) What is the potential difference
between the plates? (b) What is the area of each plate? (c) What is the capacitance?
𝑄
Use: 𝐸 =
𝜀0 𝐴

2. The plates of a parallel-plate capacitor are 3.28 mm apart, and each has an area of
12.2 mm2. Each plate carries a charge of magnitude 4.35 x 10-8 C. The plates are in
vacuum. (a) What is the capacitance? (b) What is the potential difference between
the plates? (c) What is the magnitude of the electric field between the plates?

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