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- Homework Statement
- You are given a parallel-plate capacitor with square plates of area A and separation d, in a vacuum. What is the qualitative effect of each of the following on its capacitance? (a) Double the area of one plate only, (b) Slide the plates parallel to each other so that the area of overlap is 50%. (c) Tilt one plate so that the separation remains d at one end but is ##\alpha d, 0 < \alpha < 1## at the other.
Is it possible to make quantitative calculation of the resulting capacitance in each case?
- Relevant Equations
- ##C = \frac{\epsilon_0 A}{d}##
(a) (b) have intuitive solution but the asymmetry in (c) is confusing.