It's the weekend, Kim Jong Un's hackers crashed the internet, you are in a COVID lockdown with the new Pi variant. You decide to build your own capacitor out of aluminum foil and plastic food wrap. A roll of aluminum foil is 76.2 Meters by 304 mm. (You need to divide it in half to make two parallel plates, so each plate is 38.1 Meters by 304 mm. You put a single layer of plastic food wrap between the two plates. The plastic food wrap is 25 micrometers (microns) thick and has a relative dielectric constant ɛ, = 2.0. What is the approximate capacitance of your homemade capacitor? (All answers within 10% of actual value) (This is the EE version of rolling your own) 20 pF 8 mF 205 pF 18 pF 8 uF

It's the weekend, Kim Jong Un's hackers crashed the internet, you are in a COVID lockdown with the new Pi variant. You decide to build your own capacitor out of aluminum foil and plastic food wrap. A roll of aluminum foil is 76.2 Meters by 304 mm. (You need to divide it in half to make two parallel plates, so each plate is 38.1 Meters by 304 mm. You put a single layer of plastic food wrap between the two plates. The plastic food wrap is 25 micrometers (microns) thick and has a relative dielectric constant ɛ, = 2.0. What is the approximate capacitance of your homemade capacitor? (All answers within 10% of actual value) (This is the EE version of rolling your own) 20 pF 8 mF 205 pF 18 pF 8 uF

Delmar's Standard Textbook Of Electricity

7th Edition

ISBN:9781337900348

Author:Stephen L. Herman

Publisher:Stephen L. Herman

Chapter20: Capacitance In Ac Circuits

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 2PA: You are working in an industrial plant. You have been instructed to double the capacitance connected...

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