Re: Program to calculate capacitance of plate cap

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 1/3/02 2:16:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:



>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a program kicking around that can calculate the capacitance of a
> plate capacitor? this is the one thing that wintesla doesnt have :)
>
> Best Regards,
> Jason



Uh yuh,
(or A-yah in New England)         
C=8.85 x 10^-12 x k x A x (n-1)/D
C= capacitance in Farads
k=dielectric const.
A=OVERLAPPING plate area in sq.meters
D=distance between plates in meters
n= number of plates.

Matt D.