A parallel plate capacitor, separated by a distance of 0.9 mm, has plates of area 300 cm^2 . The capacitor is connected across a 100-V emf source and a dielectric slab of dielectric constant k = 3 is in between the capacitor. Find the energy stored in the capacitor.

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A parallel plate capacitor, separated by a distance of 0.9 mm, has plates of area 300 cm^2 . The capacitor is connected across a 100-V emf source and a dielectric slab of dielectric constant k = 3 is in between the capacitor. Find the energy stored in the capacitor.

 
  1. 0J

     
  2. 1.475 x 10^-6 J

     
  3. 5.9 x 10^-5 J

     
  4. 4.43 x 10^-6 J



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