Electric Field of a Not So Parallel Plate Capacitor

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Does anyone have any idea how I could begin to examine the field of two conducting plates which are side by side instead of parallel ?
 
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Draw a sketch (and share it)?
 
This does not have an exact analytic solution unless the plates are infinite coplanar strips so that the problem devolves to 2 dimensions. Search the forum for threads on approximate formulas (I remember seeing one such thread), or you can use anyone of the standard EM modeling packages to model your geometry.
 
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