Use this link: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/capacitor-lab-basics/latest/capacitor-lab-basics_en.html It's an interactive simulator. You have to use it and use screenshots to answer the below lab report. Make sure your answers are thorough and neat, and demonstrate what you learned from the stimulator. Include screenshots from the stimulator for each question as well.

Transcribed Image Text:

Capacitor Lab: Basics: Inquiry into Capacitor Design (This lesson is designed for a student working remotely.) This lab uses the Capacitor Lab: Basics simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations at University of Colorado Boulder, under the CC-BY 4.0 license. https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/capacitor-lab-basics/latest/capacitor-lab-basics_en.html Learning Goals: Students will be able to: Identify the variables that affect the capacitance and how each affects the capacitance. Determine the relationships between charge, voltage, and stored energy for a capacitor. Relate the design of the capacitor system to its ability to store energy. Explain how to use a capacitor to light a bulb. Describe what happens as charge drains away from a capacitor into a light bulb Develop your understanding: Open the Capacitance screen, then explore to develop your own ideas about how a capacitor is designed. Capacitance Top Plate Charge Stored Energy 0.30 pF Plate Charges Bar Graphs Electric Field Cument Direction Capacitor Lab: Basics-Capacitance Separation PHET Explain your understanding: Use your own words and captured images from the simulation to show you can: 1. Identify what features of a capacitor can be maximized or minimized to make a capacitor with the greatest capacitance. a. What features of the simulation did you use to help you? 2. Design experiments to find the relationships between charge, voltage, and stored energy for a capacitor. Summarize your experimental procedures and findings. a. What features of the simulation did you use to help you? 3. If you wanted to design a capacitor system to store the greatest energy, what would you use? 4/7/2020 Loeblein page1 https://phet.colorado.edu/en/contributions/update-success/5449 Capacitor Lab: Basics: Inquiry into Capacitor Design (This lesson is designed for a student working remotely.) This lab uses the Capacitor Lab: Basics simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations at University of Colorado Boulder, under the CC-BY 4.0 license. https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/capacitor-lab-basics/latest/capacitor-lab-basics_en.html Learning Goals: Students will be able to: Identify the variables that affect the capacitance and how each affects the capacitance. Determine the relationships between charge, voltage, and stored energy for a capacitor. Relate the design of the capacitor system to its ability to store energy. Explain how to use a capacitor to light a bulb. Describe what happens as charge drains away from a capacitor into a light bulb Develop your understanding: Open the Capacitance screen, then explore to develop your own ideas about how a capacitor is designed. Capacitance Top Plate Charge Stored Energy 0.30 pF Plate Charges Bar Graphs Electric Field Cument Direction Capacitor Lab: Basics-Capacitance Separation PHET Explain your understanding: Use your own words and captured images from the simulation to show you can: 1. Identify what features of a capacitor can be maximized or minimized to make a capacitor with the greatest capacitance. a. What features of the simulation did you use to help you? 2. Design experiments to find the relationships between charge, voltage, and stored energy for a capacitor. Summarize your experimental procedures and findings. a. What features of the simulation did you use to help you? 3. If you wanted to design a capacitor system to store the greatest energy, what would you use? 4/7/2020 Loeblein page1 https://phet.colorado.edu/en/contributions/update-success/5449