1. Consider an air-filled, parallel-plate capacitor with a plate spacing of d and an plate its area of A. Which of the above changes would reduce the capacitance to 1/4 of initial value? O A quadruple A and double d OB. double A and quadruple d O C. double A and reduced to half its value O D. reduce A to half its value and double d

1. Consider an air-filled, parallel-plate capacitor with a plate spacing of d and an plate its area of A. Which of the above changes would reduce the capacitance to 1/4 of initial value? O A quadruple A and double d OB. double A and quadruple d O C. double A and reduced to half its value O D. reduce A to half its value and double d

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Chapter16: Electrical Energy And Capacitance

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Problem 6CQ: An air-filled parallel-plate capacitor with capacitance C0 stores charge Q on plates separated by...

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