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Find the potential difference, capacitance across A and B, the net capacitance and charge across battery.

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Important Questions on Capacitance and Capacitors

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Find the ratio of the potential difference that must be applied across the i parallel

(ii) series combination of two identical capacitors so that the energy stored in the two cases becomes the same.

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A 900 pF capacitor is charged by a 100 V battery. (a) How much electrostatic energy is stored by the capacitor ?
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A 900 pF capacitor is charged by a 100 V battery (b). The capacitor is disconnected from the battery and connected to another 900 pF capacitor. What is the electrostatic energy stored by the system? 
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A variable capacitor is kept connected to a 10 V battery. If the capacitance of the capacitor is charged from 7μF to 3μF, what is the decrease in the energy? What happens to this energy?
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Find the voltage between the two points A  and B of the circuit shown in Fig. 

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In a Van-de-Graaff type generator, a spherical metal shell is to be a 1.5×106 V electrode. The dielectric strength of the gas surrounding the electrode is 5×107Vm-1. What is the minimum radius of the spherical shell required?
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Two metal plates form a parallel plate capacitor. The distance of separation between the plates is d. A metal sheet of thickness d2 and of the same area is inserted completely between the plates. What is the ratio of the capacitances in the cases?
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The section AB of a circuit is shown in Figure The e.mf of the cell is E=15 V and the capacitances of C1=1μF and C2=2μF. The potential difference of A and B is 6 V. Find the potential difference across each capacitor. 

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