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Two parallel plate air capacitors of the same capacity C are connected in series to a battery of emf E. Then one of the capacitors is completely filled with the dielectric material of constant K. The change in the effective capacitance of the series combination is
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A parallel plate capacitor with square plates is filled with four dielectrics of dielectric constants K1, K2, K3, K4 arranged as shown in the figure. The effective dielectric constant K will be:

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An uncharged parallel plate capacitor filled with an oil is connected in parallel with an identical but air filled capacitor charged to a potential V1. If the common potential is V2, the dielectric constant of the oil is
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A parallel plated capacitor has area 2 m2 separated by 3 dielectric slabs. Their relative permittivity is 2 , 3, 6 and thickness is 0.4 mm, 0.6 mm, 1.2 mm respectively. The capacitance is
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A capacitance of a parallel plate air capacitor is 10μF. Dielectric constant of the medium to be introduced in between its plates to double its capacitance is
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A parallel plate capacitor has a capacity C. The separation between the plates is doubled and a dielectric medium is inserted between the plates. If the capacity is 3 C, then the dielectric constant of the medium will be
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The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor becomes 43 times its original value if a dielectric slab of thickness t=d2 is inserted between the plates (where d is the distance of separation between the plates). What is the dielectric constant of the slab?
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A parallel plate condenser is charged and isolated. When a sheet of glass is interposed between the plates
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A parallel-plate capacitor of area A, plate separation d and capacitance C is filled with four dielectric materials having dielectric constants k1k2k3 and k4 as shown in the figure below. If a single dielectric material is to be used to have the same capacitance  C in this capacitor, then its dielectric constant  k is given by

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The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with air as medium is 6 μF. With the introduction of a dielectric medium, the capacitance becomes 30 μF. The permittivity of the medium is:
ε0=8.85×1012 C2 N1 m2
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A simple pendulum of mass ' m ', length ' l ' and charge '+q' suspended in the electric field produced by two conducting parallel plates as shown. The value of deflection of pendulum in equilibrium position will be

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Voltage rating of a parallel plate capacitor is 500 V. Its dielectric can withstand a maximum electric field of 106 V m-1. The plate area is 10-4 m2 . What is the dielectric constant if the capacitance is 15 pF ?
givenϵ0=8.86×10-12 C2 N-1 m-2
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If qf is the free charge on the capacitor plates and qb is the bound charge on the dielectric slab of dielectric constant k placed between the capacitor plates, then bound charge qb can be expressed as :

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The region between the parallel plates of a capacitor is filled with parallel layers of air and paper (of dielectric constant 4). The space between the plates is 1 mm and the thickness of paper is 0.75 mm. The ratio of the voltages across air and paper is
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A 60 μF parallel plate capacitor whose plates are separated by 6 mm is charged to 250 V, and then the charging source is removed. When a slab of dielectric constant 5 and thickness 3 mm is placed between the plates, find the change in the potential difference across the capacitor?
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For a capacitor, the distance between two plates is 5 x, the electric field between them is E0, now dielectric slab having dielectric constant 3 and thickness x is placed between them in contact with one plate. In this condition what is the potential difference between its two plates is:

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A thin metal sheet is introduced in between a parallel plate capacitor having capacitance C. Then
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A parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates has a capacitance of 9 pF. The separation between the plates is d. The space between the plates is now filled with two dielectrics constant K1=3 and thickness d3 while the other one has dielectric constant K2=6 and thickness 2d3. Capacitance of the capacitor is now 
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Two identical parallel plate capacitors, of capacitance C each, have plates of area A, separated by a distance d . The space between the plates of the two capacitors, is filled with three dielectrics, of equal thickness and dielectric constants K1, K2 and K3 . The first capacitor is filled as shown in figure I, and the second one is filled as shown in figure II.
If these two modified capacitors are charged by the same potential V , the ratio of the energy stored in the two, would be (E1 refers to capacitor I and E2 to capacitor (II) ):
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A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance 90 pF is connected to a battery of EMF 20 V. If a dielectric material of dielectric constant K=53 is inserted between the plates, the magnitude of the induced charge will be: