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The plates of an air capacitor have an area of and are mm apart. A slab of dielectric constant and thickness mm is placed between them, parallel to the plates and not touching them. Find the capacitance with the slab, and with a metal slab of the same thickness. The plates are joined to a V battery. Find the field in the slab, and the potential difference across the slab.
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Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Given. , mm, mm, , V.
Step 1. The effective gap. .
Step 2. The capacitance with the dielectric slab. , that is pF.
Step 3. The capacitance with the metal slab. The gap is , so pF.
Step 4. The fields. In the air . In the slab kV/m.
Step 5. The voltage across the slab. .
Answer: pF, pF, kV/m and V.
Check. The air layers, together mm, take V. Then , the battery voltage.
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A dielectric that fills the gap multiplies by . With the battery connected stays and grows by . With the battery removed stays and falls to . A slab of thickness gives , and the field in the slab is of the field in the air. A metal slab gives .
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