
A cylindrical capacitor has charge and length . If both the charge and length of the capacitors are doubled, by keeping other parameters fixed, the energy stored in the capacitor

Important Questions on Electrostatics


An electron enters a parallel plate capacitor with horizontal speed and is found to deflect by angle on leaving the capacitor as shown. It is found that and gravity is negligible.
If the initial horizontal speed is doubled, then will 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 , the charge density of the positive plate will be close to :

Two identical parallel plate capacitors of capacitance each are connected in series with a battery of emf, as shown. If one of the capacitors is now filled with a dielectric of dielectric constant , the amount of charge which will flow through the battery is (neglect internal resistance of the battery)




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:



What is the value of current at



What are the charges stored in the and capacitors in the circuit below, once the currents become steady?




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

