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but I'm not... maybe small calculation errors somewhere... baaaagh

When I wrote "12uF = Q(tot)/11v" I was applying that to the capacitors in parallel ie what I had described before. When in parallel this is how I approached: 1/3 uF = delta V(1) / Q 1/9 uF = delta V(2) / Q where Q in both is the same and is the total charge accumulated by the capacitors...

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[b]1. A vertical parallel-plate capacitor is half filled with a dielectric for which the dielectric constant is 1.97 (Fig. P26.70a). When this capacitor is positioned horizontally, what percentage of it should be filled with the same dielectric (Fig. P26.70b) so that the two capacitors have...

mmmk so (C1*C2 / C1+ C2) = C(tot) does the same as (1/C1 + 1/C2)^-1, when you say V(1) + V(2) = V(t) is that the same V as when the capacitors were connected in parallel? I'm still entirely confused...

potential difference in parallel -- capacitors Two capacitors C1 = 3 µF and C2 = 9 µF are connected in parallel across a 11 V battery. They are carefully disconnected so that they are not discharged and are reconnected to each other with positive plate to negative plate and negative plate to...