User:SeanShriner/ENES-100/Project 3

Week1 Narrative
For the first week I looked into various forms of capacitors but focused on static capacitors since those are the aim of the project. The easiest one to construct seems to be a Leyden Jar or a variation of it, seeing that Leyden Jars are one of the first static capacitors to be constructed and studied. One of these jars can be easily constructed using a plastic bottle, aluminum foil, a nail, and wire. Other forms of capacitors can also easily be constructed. These center around either parallel sheets of a conductive metal or parallel strips wound together in a coil.

Second Task
My task for the second week is to begin constructing and testing various capacitors.

Week2 Narrative
I built a small capacitor made of aluminum sheets and paper for the insulator. I attempted to charge the capacitor using both a DC power supply and static produced by PVC and cloth. Both failed to charge the capacitor. This may be due to insufficient insulation and the charge just passing through the paper. I then stated to build a Leyden jar out of an old whiskey bottle. I cut off the top of the bottle using fire to heat a circle around the bottle then dunking the bottle into water causing the bottle to split where it was heated. Here is the /CDIO/ page.