Testing conformal mapping with kitchen aluminum foil
S. Haas, D. A. Cooke, P. Crivelli
TL;DR
This paper presents an accessible experimental verification of conformal mapping using kitchen aluminum foil, demonstrating its educational value and confirming recent theoretical predictions about electric potential distribution.
Contribution
It introduces a simple, reproducible experiment for undergraduates to visualize conformal mapping and validates recent theoretical results experimentally.
Findings
Experimental results match theoretical predictions
The experiment is easily reproducible in undergraduate labs
Confirms recent conformal mapping theory
Abstract
We report an experimental verification of conformal mapping with kitchen aluminum foil. This experiment can be reproduced in any laboratory by undergraduate students and it is therefore an ideal experiment to introduce the concept of conformal mapping. The original problem was the distribution of the electric potential in a very long plate. The correct theoretical prediction was recently derived by A. Czarnecki (Can. J. Phys. 92, 1297 (2014)).
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