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Calculate displacement current through half of the area of a capacitor of area A and separation between plates d charged by constant current I.

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Match List I and List II

A Gauss’s Law in Electrostatics   I E·dl=-dϕBdt
B Faraday's Law II B·dA=0 
C Gauss’s Law in Magnetism III B·dl=μ0ic+μ00dϕEdt
D Ampere-Maxwell Law IV E·ds=q0

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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(Given :14πε0=9×109 N m2 C-2

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