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What is the ideal way of connecting three capacitors each of capacitance 4 μF to achieve an effective capacitance of 6 μF ?

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Important Questions on Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

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The charge on a capacitor plate in a circuit, as a function of time, is shown in the figure:
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What is the value of current at t=4 s?
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A parallel plate capacitor has 1μF capacitance. One of its two plates is given +2μC charge and the other plate, +4 μC charge. The potential difference developed across the capacitor is:
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A capacitor is made of two square plates each of side a making a very small angle α between them, as shown in figure. The capacitance will be close to:
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A parallel plate capacitor is of area 6 cm2 and a separation 3 mm. The gap is filled with three dielectric materials of equal thickness (see figure) with dielectric constant K1=10, K2=12 and K3=14. The dielectric constant of a material which when fully inserted in above capacitor, gives same capacitance would be:

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A capacitor of μF is charged as shown in the diagram. When the switch S is turned to position 2, the percentage of its stored energy dissipated is

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A parallel plate  capacitor has uniform electric field  E in the space between the plates.If the distance between the plates is d and area of each plate is  A, the energy stored in the capacitor is ;

 

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In a parallel plate air capacitor the distance between plates is reduced to one fourth and the space between them is filled with a dielectric medium of constant 2. If the initial capacity of the capacitor is 4 μF. Then its new capacity is
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A parallel plate capacitor of two plates, each with area 90π cm2, is separated by 5 mm air-gap. The capacitor is initially connected to 100 V source. When an unknown liquid is filled between the plates so as to fill the air-gap, an additional charge of 95 nC is found to be flowing onto the capacitor from the 100 V source. The dielectric constant of the liquid is
(Assume 14πϵ0=9×109 N m2 C-2)

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Two identical conducting spheres A and B carry an equal charges. They are separated by a distance much larger than their diameters, and the force between them is F. A third identical conducting sphere, C, is uncharged. Sphere C is first touched to A, then to B, and then removed. As a result, the force between A and B would be equal to:
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A capacitor is charged by a battery. The battery is removed and another identical uncharged capacitor is connected in parallel. The total electrostatic energy of resulting system
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Two capacitors of capacitances C and 2C are charged to potential differences V and 2V, respectively. These are then connected in parallel in such a manner that the positive terminal of one is connected to the negative terminal of the other. The final energy of this configuration is :
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Two capacitors C1 and C2 are charged to 120 V and 200 V respectively. It is found that by connecting them together the potential on each one can be made zero. Then:
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A parallel plate capacitor having cross-sectional area A and separation d has air in between the plates. Now an insulating slab of the same area but the thickness, d2, is inserted between the plates as shown in figure having dielectric constant K(=4). The ratio of new capacitance to its original capacitance will be,

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A parallel plate capacitor has plates of area A separated by distance d between them. It is filled with a dielectric which has a dielectric constant that varies as Kx=K01+αx where x is the distance measured from one of the plates. If αd<<1, the total capacitance of the system is best given by the expression:
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In a parallel plate capacitor, the capacity can be increased by decreasing
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A neutral spherical copper particle has a radius of 10 nm1 nm=10-9 m. It gets charged by applying the voltage slowly adding one electron at a time. Then, the graph of the total charge on the particle versus the applied voltage would look like
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How will the voltage V between the two plates of a parallel plate capacitor depend on the distance d between the plates, if the charge on the capacitor remains the same?
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A parallel plate capacitor is made of two circular plates separated by a distance of 5 mm and with a dielectric of dielectric constant 2.2 between them. When the electric field in the dielectric is 3 × 1 0 4  V/m , the charge density of the positive plate will be close to :

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A parallel plate air capacitor of capacitance C is connected to a cell of emf V and then disconnected from it. A dielectric slab of dielectric constant K, which can just fill the air gap of the capacitor, is now inserted in it. Which of the following is incorrect?
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A parallel plate capacitor with plates of area 1 m2 each, are at a separation of 0.1 m. If the electric field between the plates is 100 N C-1, the magnitude of charge on each plate is: (Takeε0=8.85×1012 C2 N-1 m-2)