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Grade 12Electrostatics

The plates of small size of a parallel plate capacitor are charged as shown. The force on the charged particle of q at a distance l from the capacitor is:( Assume that the distance between the plates is d is very less than l)

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Profile image of Meghana Bhat
9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
Dear Student,
It would be zero.
As the electric field due to the the paralle plates is independent
of the distance one negative charge and positive charge would cancel the total Electric field.
And therefore force would be zero perhaps!
 
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Vikas (B. Tech. 4th year
Thapar University)