PASCO ES-9060 Charge, Equipotential and Field Mapper - Manual (Page 3)

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Table of Contents
Equipment List........................................................ 3-4
Introduction ............................................................. 5
Equipment Setup .................................................... 6-10
Part I: Sketching the Charged Paths........................................................................................... 6-7
Part II: Connecting the Electrodes to a Power Supply and Checking their Potential ................ 7-8
Part III: Plotting an Equipotential .............................................................................................. 8-9
Part IV: Plotting Field Gradients ............................................................................................. 9-10
Equipotential and Field Mapping Experiments ....................11-15
Experiment 1: Parallel Plate Capacitor ........................................................................................11
Experiment 2: Point Source and Guard Ring...............................................................................11
Experiment 3: Dipoles of Opposite Charge .................................................................................12
Experiment 4: Dipoles of Like Charge ........................................................................................12
Experiment 5 :Floating Electrode ................................................................................................12
Experiment 6: Floating Insulator .................................................................................................13
Experiment 7: Line and Circular Source......................................................................................13
Experiment 8: Line and Sharp Point ............................................................................................13
Experiment 9: Triode ...................................................................................................................14
Experiment 10: Fluid Mechanisms ..............................................................................................14
Charge Mapping Experiments......................................16-21
Experiment 1: Charge Density Inside and Outside a Cylinder .............................................. 18-19
Experiment 2: Charge Density on a Cone.............................................................................. 19-20
Experiment 3: Charge Density on a Plane near a Point Source ............................................. 20-21
Appendix A: Technical Support .......................................22
Appendix B: Copyright and Warranty Information ..................22