
A capacitor of capacitance consists of two large parallel metal plates. The coefficient of linear expansion of the metal is . What is the change in capacitance if the temperature of the plates rises by , while the gap between the plates is kept fixed?

Important Questions on Electrostatics


A parallel plate capacitor having cross-sectional area and separation has air in between the plates. Now an insulating slab of the same area but the thickness, , is inserted between the plates as shown in figure having dielectric constant The ratio of new capacitance to its original capacitance will be,

A parallel plate capacitor of two plates, each with area , is separated by air-gap. The capacitor is initially connected to source. When an unknown liquid is filled between the plates so as to fill the air-gap, an additional charge of is found to be flowing onto the capacitor from the source. The dielectric constant of the liquid is
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Four metallic plates each of area and separated from one another by a distance are arranged as shown in the figure. What is the capacitance between and




A parallel plate capacitor has plates of area A separated by distance between them. It is filled with a dielectric which has a dielectric constant that varies as where is the distance measured from one of the plates. If the total capacitance of the system is best given by the expression:

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 , the charge density of the positive plate will be close to :

In the figure is shown a system of four capacitors connected across a battery. The charge that will flow from switch S when it is closed is:

