1. An air-filled capacitor is made from two flat parallel plates 1.5 mm apart. The inside area of each plate is 8.5 cm². (a) What is the capacitance of this set of plates? F Cair = (b) If the region between the plates filled with a material whose dielectric constant is 6.5, what is the new capacitance? C dielectric = F

1. An air-filled capacitor is made from two flat parallel plates 1.5 mm apart. The inside area of each plate is 8.5 cm². (a) What is the capacitance of this set of plates? F Cair = (b) If the region between the plates filled with a material whose dielectric constant is 6.5, what is the new capacitance? C dielectric = F

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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