
The radii of two spherical conductors and are in the ratio Conductor is in air while is surrounded by a meditm of relative permittivity . The ratio of the capacitances of and is

Important Questions on Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance



A parallel plate capacitor with square plates is filled with four dielectrics of dielectric constants arranged as shown in the figure. The effective dielectric constant will be:






If these two modified capacitors are charged by the same potential , the ratio of the energy stored in the two, would be refers to capacitor and to capacitor ):





If is the free charge on the capacitor plates and is the bound charge on the dielectric slab of dielectric constant placed between the capacitor plates, then bound charge can be expressed as :


A simple pendulum of mass ' ', length ' ' and charge suspended in the electric field produced by two conducting parallel plates as shown. The value of deflection of pendulum in equilibrium position will be





A parallel-plate capacitor of area , plate separation and capacitance is filled with four dielectric materials having dielectric constants, , and as shown in the figure below. If a single dielectric material is to be used to have the same capacitance in this capacitor, then its dielectric constant is given by

