{"id":3644,"date":"2015-06-16T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/2015\/06\/16\/capacitor-discharge\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:53","slug":"capacitor-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/capacitor-discharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacitor Discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Capacitor-Sparks.jpg\" alt=\"Capacitor Discharge demo photo\" width=\"366\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Connect the capacitor to one of the HP power supplies located\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: large;\">in L35. Charge the capacitor to 100-140 V (the more V the louder the bang).<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">After the capacitor is fully charged, disconnect it from the power supply<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(or, if using a switch to charge up capacitor, flip switch to &#8220;discharge&#8221;).<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Finally, short the capacitor leads with the metal part of the screw driver.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A loud bang and bright spark will imediately ensue.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Located in L01, section A2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Connect the capacitor to one of the HP power supplies located\u00a0in L35. Charge the capacitor to 100-140 V (the more V the louder the bang).After the capacitor is fully charged, disconnect it from the power supply(or, if using a switch to charge up capacitor, flip switch to &#8220;discharge&#8221;).Finally, short the capacitor leads with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/capacitor-discharge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Capacitor Discharge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,44],"tags":[128,129,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6000,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/6000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}