Sunday, April 7, 2013

Electromagnetic Radiation Lab

Purpose:

       The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the behavior of electromagnetic radiation due to a simple antenna.


 
 
DATA:
 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 





   
Data:

Grapg:

 
 
 
 
ANALYSIS:

The uncertainty values for the peak to peak voltage are as follows:
±12 for V= (50 mV, 90 mV)
±6 for V= (19 mV, 28 mV)
±3 for V= (7.5 mV, 15.5mV)

The quantization uncertainty in the measurements of the distance z was set to ±0.01 cm. However, this uncertainty distance that was measured may have been calculated to the base of the prong. Consequently , an additional uncertainty, ±.02cm, needs to be added making it a total ∆z uncertainty of ±0.03cm.

Z minimum
Z maximum
Vmax
Vmin
Vuncertainty
0.02
0.08
144.1614372
65.30877
39.42633133
0.07
0.13
71.97213324
44.16668
13.90272463
0.12
0.18
47.28534799
33.06248
7.111432949
0.17
0.23
34.83099292
26.31653
4.257233117
0.22
0.28
27.44228895
21.81686
2.812715339
0.27
0.33
22.59180341
18.61364
1.989079353
0.32
0.38
19.17788295
16.22204
1.477923748
0.37
0.43
16.65045626
14.37048
1.13998933
0.42
0.48
14.706491
12.8957
0.905395224
0.47
0.53
13.16610911
11.6939
0.736106122

 
 
 
 Conclusion:
We learned the behavior of electromagnetic radiation due to a simple antenna. The voltage and distance is the mots important two things. The range of error between the two could be explained by discussing the simplifications made in order to keep this experiment simple. Even though we assumed that the linear charge density was constant, there were also other outside interference that could have altered the effects of the radiation that would have given slightly inaccurate data from the oscillator. 
 
 

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