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A parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates is charged to a potential of $500 V$ and then insulated. A plastic plate is inserted between the plates filling the whole gap. The potential difference between the plates become $75 V$ . The dielectric constant of the plastic plate is

\frac{10}{3}

\frac{20}{3}

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A parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates is charged to a potential of

500 V

and then insulated. A plastic plate is inserted between the plates filling the whole gap. The potential difference between the plates become

75 V

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v_{0} = \frac{q}{c _{0}}

v = \frac{q}{c}

\frac{v}{v _{0}} = \frac{c _{0}}{c} ∴ \frac{c _{0}}{c} = \frac{500}{75} = \frac{20}{3}

\frac{c}{c _{0}} = \frac{k c _{0}}{c _{0}} = \frac{20}{3} ∴ k = \frac{20}{3}

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Question Text	A parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates is charged to a potential of $500 V$ and then insulated. A plastic plate is inserted between the plates filling the whole gap. The potential difference between the plates become $75 V$ . The dielectric constant of the plastic plate is
Updated On	Sep 11, 2022
Topic	Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
Subject	Physics
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