Testing conformal mapping with kitchen aluminum foil

摘要

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 Czarnecki (Can. J. Phys. 92, 1297 (2014)).