Electricity and Magnetism: Factors Affecting Capacitance

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written by Michael Davidson

This interactive tutorial shows how changing the properties of a parallel plate capacitor alters its capacitance. The user can alter plate size, plate separation, and the dielectric used to observe the ideal conditions for optimum capacitance.

Please note that this resource requires Java.

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/capacitance/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - Capacitance = Capacitors = Dielectric	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Curriculum = Interactive Simulation = Tutorial

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Access Rights:: Limited free access; Additional information is available.
Restriction:: © 1995
Additional information is available.
Keywords:: area, capacitance, dielectric, distance, parallel plate, picoFarads, simulation, student interactive tutorial, tutorial
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created November 19, 2006 by Cathy Ezrailson
Record Updated:: June 30, 2008 by Jenny Rempel
Last Update when Cataloged:: June 15, 2006
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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