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Just had a brain wave: is it possible to treat both dielectrics as a single material by averaging their respective permittivities divided by their proportion of the gap? So \epsilon_{T}=\epsilon_{r1}*1/3 + \epsilon_{r2}*2/3 = (\epsilon_{r1} +2\epsilon_{r2})/3 Therefore: E =...

Homework Statement Use Gauss' law to find an expression for the electric field within a charged parallel plate capacitor with two layers of dielectric materials (?r1 and ?r2). (See attached image, this is for question 2a). The Attempt at a Solution My approach would be to split the...