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Write the working principle of a parallel plate capacitor. On what factors, the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor depends?

Important Questions on Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

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In a parallel plate capacitor, the capacity can be increased by decreasing
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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 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 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 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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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 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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Eight drops of mercury of equal radii combine to form a big drop. The capacitance of a bigger drop as compared to each smaller drop is
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A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance C has spacing d between two plates having area A. The region between the plates is filled with N dielectric layers, parallel to its plates, each with thickness δ=dN. The dielectric constant of the mth layer is Km=K1+mN. For a very large N>103, the capacitance C is αK0Adln2. The value of α will be____.

[0 is the permittivity of free space]
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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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For changing the capacitance of a given parallel plate capacitor, a dielectric material of dielectric constant K is used, which has the same area as the plates of the capacitor. The thickness of the dielectric slab is 34d, where d is the separation between the plates of parallel plate capacitor. The new capacitance C' in terms of original capacitance C0 is given by the following relation :
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In the figure is shown a system of four capacitors connected across a 10 V battery. The charge that will flow from switch S when it is closed is:
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A parallel plate capacitor has plate area 100 m2 and plate separation of 10 m. The space between the plates is filled up to a thickness 5 m with a material of dielectric constant of 10 . The resultant capacitance of the system is x pF. The value of ε0=8.85×10-12 F m-1. The value of x to the nearest integer 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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In a parallel plate capacitor set up, the plate area of capacitor is 2 m2 and the plates are separated by 1 m. If the space between the plates are filled with a dielectric material of thickness 0.5 m and are 2 m2 (see figure) the capacitance of the set-up will be ε0 ________.

(Dielectric constant of the material =3.2)

(Round off to the Nearest Integer)

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Four metallic plates each of area A and separated from one another by a distance d are arranged as shown in the figure. What is the capacitance between X and Y ?

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If a slab of insulating material, 4×10-3 m thick is introduced between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor, the separation between the plates has to be increased by 3.5×10-3 m to restore the capacity to original value. The dielectric constant of the material will be
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Two thin dielectric slabs of dielectric constants K1 and K2K1<K2 are inserted between plates of a parallel plate capacitor, as shown in the figure. The variation of electric field ‘ E ’ between the plates with distance ‘ d ’ as measured from plate P is correctly shown by:
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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)