Wolfram Demonstrations Project

12,000+ Open Interactive Demonstrations
Powered by Notebook Technology »

Partially Filled Capacitor

Initializing live version
Download to Desktop

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System

Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.

A capacitor is an electrical device that stores energy. Between its two plates a capacitor can be filled with some material or evacuated to leave a vacuum. A partially filled capacitor is equivalent to two capacitors connected in a series, one with the material and the other empty.

Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

Snapshots

Details

The capacitance is

,

where is the percentage of the capacitor filled, the separation between the original plates, the dielectric constant, and the permittivity in a vacuum. Simplifying,

.

In this example, and .

Embed Code

Take advantage of the Wolfram Notebook Emebedder for the recommended user experience.

Related Demonstrations More by Author
Browse all topics
Feedback (field required)
Email (field required) Name
Occupation Organization
Note: Your message & contact information may be shared with the author of any specific Demonstration for which you give feedback.
Send