Day 13 Lab 04/14/14

Electric Potential:

In this experiment we discussed how the charge can move around a charged ring where we can find a solution by splitting the problem into parts. The potential difference between the potential conductors was determined . It can tell whether or not that if there was work done because the graph is to show the difference of the potential. It can be found in different situations in finding the potential like a point charge pertaining to a ring, sphere, disk and wire, which can be definite or infinite.

This is the calculations of the problem with a charged sphere were we tried to find the voltage potential by moving the charge to different parts of the ring.



The calculations from the image above

This is the potential of dipole charges with the fields being split by a straight line and then making equal forces lines that go around the charges. It is just like the electric fields.

This is the lab set up in which we had to find the electric potential using the chart by moving away from the circle to beyond the line, with power supply being 15 V. However when we did the experiment our results were off by the graph either because of the wrong readings or malfunction of the equipment. The experiment shows that distance is a factor when relating to electric potential and the farther it is from the point, the greater the value from each of the points.

This the graph from the experiment from the image above showing that our values were off causing the graph to have no shape from the actual value. The graph shows the difference between the lower and high potentials and was different from the other groups because it was supposed to show that the change of the voltage is zero.