Experiment 6-Equipotential Mapping

Question 1

What is the purpose of this experiment?

Answer 1

To measure equipotential lines to then infer the configuration of electric field lines emanating from different charges.

Question 2

What sort of paper will be used?

Answer 2

Teledeltos Paper

Question 3

What does teledeltos paper allow us to do?

Answer 3

Small amounts of charge can flow along the direction of a local electric field, making it neither an insulator or a conductor, but a semiconductor.
Potentials around conducting shapes (electrodes) will be visualized and measured.

Question 4

What is the orientation of equipotential lines with respect to electric field lines?

Answer 4

They are perpendicular to electric field lines at ALL points.

Question 5

How are different magnitudes for electric fields illustrated by using equipotential lines?

Answer 5

They are closer together for greater magnitudes and further apart for smaller magnitudes.