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    This document provides instructions for a lab experiment on mapping electric field lines. The objectives are to measure electric potential, map equipotential lines, determine electric field directions, and infer charge distributions on conductors. Students will use various apparatus to collect voltage data points and draw equipotential and electric field lines to visualize electric fields between conductors.

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    This document provides instructions for a lab experiment on mapping electric field lines. The objectives are to measure electric potential, map equipotential lines, determine electric field directions, and infer charge distributions on conductors. Students will use various apparatus to collect voltage data points and draw equipotential and electric field lines to visualize electric fields between conductors.

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    This document provides instructions for a lab experiment on mapping electric field lines. The objectives are to measure electric potential, map equipotential lines, determine electric field directions, and infer charge distributions on conductors. Students will use various apparatus to collect voltage data points and draw equipotential and electric field lines to visualize electric fields between conductors.

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    Electric Field Line Mapping Lab

    Materials:

    ● Multimeter with (2+ each) Black & Red Banana Cords

    ● Extech DC Regulated Power Supply

    ● Overbeck Electric Field Apparatus (Central Scientific),

    ● “Two small circular conductors”

    ● “Point and Plane”

    ● Plastic Template #1

    ● Ruler marked in mm.

    ● 2 pages of white typing paper

    ● (Other conductors and templates if requested by


    instructor)

    Objectives:

    ❖ Learn how to make measurements of electric potential

    ❖ Learn how to map regions of equal electric potential

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    ❖ Learn how to map the electric field directions using
    equal potential lines
    Learn how to calculate the average electric field between two
    ∆V
    equipotential lines using: E = ∆ s
    av

    ❖ Learn how to infer the distribution of charge on


    conductors

    Background Information

    ● The strength of the electric field near a conductor is


    proportional to the charge density on the conductor

    ● Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium are equal potential


    surfaces

    ● Electric field lines are everywhere perpendicular to lines of


    equal potential

    ● Equal potential lines indicate paths in which the electric


    potential has no change

    ● Electric field lines indicate paths in which the electric


    potential changes the maximum amount per unit distance

    ● Lines of equal potential never intersect one another

    ● Electric field lines never intersect one another


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    ∆V
    ● The average size of the electric field is given by E =
    av
    ∆s ,

    where delta-s is the arc length measured along an electric


    field line. This calculation gives an approximation of how
    large the electric field is between two equipotential lines.

    ● Delta-s must be the full arc distance between two known


    potentials to have any meaning.

    ● The direction of the electric field is toward smaller values


    of electric potential

    General Procedural Information

    ● Connect conductor plates on bottom of Overbeck device

    ● Disconnect wires when changing conductor plates

    ● Hook template on hooks and trace correct conductors onto


    paper

    ● Mark potential points in pencil

    ● Adjust DC Power Supply to 6.0V

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    ● Connect the left plate to the black power supply outlet and
    the right plate to the red power supply outlet.

    ● Write 0V by the plate connected to the black power supply


    outlet

    ● Write 6.0V by the plate connected to the red power supply


    outlet

    ● Use the optimal DC---- setting on the multimeter

    ● Connect the common outlet of the multimeter to the 0V


    plate, connect the red outlet of the multimeter to the
    measurement arm

    Procedure for each Configuration (your instructor will


    indicate which Configurations to use).

    ● Take 5 data points each for 1.5V, 3.0V, and 4.5V. If you
    cannot get 1.5V or 4.5V then use the closest value that you
    can obtain to these values.

    Electric Field Line Mapping

    ● Work in Pencil. You can highlight it later.

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    ● Write the voltage for each different value on your paper

    ● Draw smooth lines through each equal potential data set

    ● Electric field lines are lines which are:


    1. Smooth, and
    2. Perpendicular to all equipotential lines.

    ● Draw three symmetric electric field lines for each data set.

    ● Make a measured-estimate of the delta-s between


    equipotential lines. If the line is curved estimate the arc
    length of the line.
    ∆V
    Use E =
    av
    ∆s

    ● to calculate the average size of the electric field in


    volts/meter for specific regions requested.

    Page 5 of 5

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