
An uncharged capacitor having capacitance is connected across a battery of emf . Now, the capacitor is disconnected and then, reconnected across the same battery but with reversed polarity. Which of the statement is incorrect?


Important Questions on Capacitance

In an isolated parallel plate capacitor of capacitance , the four surfaces have charges as shown. The potential difference between the plates is :

Assertion: Increasing the charge on the plates of a capacitor means increasing the capacitance.
Reason: Because

Assertion: The capacitance of a capacitor depends on the shape, size and geometrical placing of the conductors and its medium between them.
Reason: When a charge passes through a battery of emf from the negative terminal to an positive terminal, an amount of work is done by the battery.

Assertion :- A dielectric slab is inserted between the plates of an isolated charged capacitor. The charge on the capacitor will remain the same.
Reason :- Charge on an isolated system is conserved.

Assertion: Two adjacent conductors carrying the same charge can be at different potentials.
Reason: The conductors may have different sizes and hence different capacitances.

Assertion: When charges are shared between two parallel plate capacitors, a charge of the system is conserved, but some energy is lost.
Reason: During the sharing of charges, some energy is dissipated as heat.

Assertion:- On filling the space between the plates of a parallel plate air capacitor with a dielectric, the capacity of the capacitor is increased.
Reason:- The same amount of charge can be stored at a reduced potential.
