Re: Calculating Capacitance of solid disk

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>


Dan:

FANTC will do the cap of a flat plate.

Dr. Resonance
 >
 > Instead of a toroid, I'm going to use an aluminum disk top plate which
I'll
 > lathe to have nice radius outside edge.
 >
 > Anyone know how to calculate the capacitance of a disk like this?  I would
 > think it would be approximately close to
 > the standard toroid capacitance formula.