1. An air-filled capacitor is made from two flat parallel plates 0.8 mm apart. The inside area of each plate is 7.4 cm². (a) What is the capacitance of this set of plates? C. = air F (b) If the region between the plates is filled with a material whose dielectric constant is 5.7, what is the new capacitance? dielectric F

1. An air-filled capacitor is made from two flat parallel plates 0.8 mm apart. The inside area of each plate is 7.4 cm². (a) What is the capacitance of this set of plates? C. = air F (b) If the region between the plates is filled with a material whose dielectric constant is 5.7, what is the new capacitance? dielectric F

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