An ideal air-filled parallel-plate capacitor consists of plates that are 1.0 mm apart and have an area of 1.5 × 10-4 m2

The capacitor is connected to a 12-V potential source (battery). (?0 = 8.85 × 10-12 C2/N ? m2)
(a) What is the capacitance of this capacitor?
(b) How much charge is on each of its plates?
(c) What is the strength of the electric field between the plates?


(a) 1.3 pF (b) 16 pC (c) 12 kN/C

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