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A parallel plate air capacitor has a capacitance C. When it is half filled with a dielectric of dielectric constant 5. The percentage increase in the capacitance will be :- Question Image

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The dimensional formula of capacitance is _______.

Take Q as the dimension formula of charge.

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Sixty four water drops having equal charges combine to form one bigger drop. The capacitance of bigger drop as compared to that of smaller drop will be
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Consider the combination of two capacitors C1 and C2, with C2>C1, when connected in parallel, the equivalent capacitance is 10 times the equivalent capacitance of the same connected in series. Calculate the ratio of capacitors, C2C1.
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An electrician requires a capacitance of 6μF in a circuit across a potential difference of 1.5kV. A large number of 2μF capacitors which can withstand a potential difference of not more than 500 V are available. The minimum number of capacitors required for the purpose is
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What are the charges stored in the 1 Î¼F and 2 Î¼F capacitors in the circuit below, once the currents become steady?

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A parallel plate capacitor with plate area 'A' and distance of separation 'd' is filled with a dielectric. What is the capacity of the capacitor when permittivity of the dielectric varies as:

εx=ε0+kx, for 0<x≤d2

εx=ε0+kd-x, for d2≤x≤d

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An initially uncharged capacitor C is being charged by a battery of emf E through a resistance R upto the instant when the capacitor is charged to the potential E/2, the ratio of the work done by the battery to the heat dissipated by the resistor is given by:-
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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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In the given circuit, the charge on 4 μF capacitor will be:
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In the given circuit diagram,

E=5 V, r=1 Î©, R2=4 Î©, R1=R3=1 Î© and C=3 Î¼F

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Then, what will be the numerical value of charge on each plates of the capacitor.

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The material filled between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor has resistivity 200 Î© m. The value of capacitance of the capacitor is 2 pF. If a potential difference of 40 V is applied across the plates of the capacitor, then the value of leakage current flowing out of the capacitor is: (given the value of relative permittivity of material is 50)

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An electron enters a parallel plate capacitor with horizontal speed Î¼ and is found to deflect by angle Î¸ on leaving the capacitor as shown. It is found that tanθ=0.4 and gravity is negligible.

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If the initial horizontal speed is doubled, then tanθ will be:

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A capacitor is connected to a 20 V battery through a resistance of 10Ω. It is found that the potential difference across the capacitor rises to 2 V in 1 Î¼s. The capacitance of the capacitor is ________μF.
Given In 109=0.105
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Find the total capacitance and total charge on the capacitors

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As shown in the figure below, if a capacitor C is charged by connecting it with resistance R, then energy given by the battery 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 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: (Take  ε0=8.85×10−12 C2 N-1 m-2)
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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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Two identical parallel plate capacitors of capacitance each are connected in series with a battery of emf, E as shown. If one of the capacitors is now filled with a dielectric of dielectric constant k, the amount of charge which will flow through the battery is (neglect internal resistance of the battery)

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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?