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Class 12 Physics (India)

Course: Class 12 Physics (India) > Unit 2

Lesson 9: Capacitance & parallel plate capacitors
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Class 12 Physics (India)
Electrostatic potential and capacitance
Capacitance & parallel plate capacitors
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Parallel plate capacitors

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Problem

A capacitor is constructed with two parallel rectangular plates, each with sides, 5, space, start text, m, end text and 2, space, start text, m, end text. The capacitance, C, equals, 1, point, 5, space, start text, n, F, end text.
What is the separation, d, between the plates of the capacitor?
Note: Write d in units of start text, c, m, end text.
d, equals
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 6
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3, slash, 5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7, slash, 4
  • a mixed number, like 1, space, 3, slash, 4
  • an exact decimal, like 0, point, 75
  • a multiple of pi, like 12, space, start text, p, i, end text or 2, slash, 3, space, start text, p, i, end text
start text, c, m, end text
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