Re: Calculating Capacitance of solid disk

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 11:31 09/03/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <classictesla-at-netzero-dot-com>
>
>Hi Dan,
>
>This is a nice function of Fantc. It can perform analysis of object 
>capacitance for toroids, spheres, spheroids, discs, and cylinders (up to 
>10 each of wanted). In this case, I simply computed the 4" disk 
>capacitance. Here's the output at a detail 3 setting.
>
>Computing ..... please wait
>System or Object Capacitance: 140.08 pF
>Run CompleteTime elapsed: 2.1 secs

That's way too high! A disk that size should be way less than 10pF. are you 
sure you didn't get inches and meters mixed up?

Steve C.