184_projects:f20_project_6

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The Artemis 13 is on it's way back to Earth and currently is hanging in lower Earth orbit. You and a team of scientists have been desperately re-wiring the spacecraft circuitry to get home. While soldering wires, your android co-pilot Johnny 5 begins to malfunction, it is essential that Johnny 5 not lose all power as he controls the landing sequence to reach the planet's surface. Melissa Lewis, the team leader, mentioned that in a training video she saw back in the 80's call “Short Circuit 2” a model like Johnny 5 was brought back to life using a defibrillator.

You run to the medical bay and grab the defibrillator and rush back to Johnny 5. When you go to charge the defibrillator, however, you notice that the instruments are not reporting a proper charge. In order to not risk the safety of Johnny 5 by shocking him with faulty equipment, you decide against pressing the button and shouting “clear.” You need to save Johnny 5. Using your knowledge of electromagnetism, you know you can create a makeshift piece of equipment to be able to stabilize Johnny 5.

You run to the limited “stock room” on board, only to discover limited supplies. You manage to find sheets of aluminum, and various paper sheets, some electrical tape and wires, and a pair of all-purpose scissors.

The defibrillator must be able to deliver 360 J to Johnny 5 in order to stabilize him. Can you fix the instrument and save him?

The paper sheets are 0.5 m wide, 2 m in length, and vary in thickness (2 mm, 1 mm, 500 $\mu$m, 50 $\mu$m, 1 $\mu$m, 0.5 $\mu$m). The aluminum sheets are 0.80 m in length, 0.5 m wide, and 0.3 mm in thickness. The defibrillator has a high voltage power supply of 30 kV.

Learning Goals

  • Explain how a capacitor charges and discharges
  • Explain what changes about your capacitor when you have a dielectric
  • Explain why you add a capacitor to a circuit and what would change about the circuit.
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