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Grade 12Electrostatics

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what will be the capacitance of parallel plate capacitor when one plate is smaller than the other one? plate area is a1 and a2.

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16 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Apoorva Arora
12 Years ago
The electric field will be confined to the closed system. Therefore, The capacitance will beC=\frac{A\epsilon _{0}}{d}where A= the smallest area out of a1 and a2.
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