Suppose you have a parallel plate capacitor with a capacitance of 4.425 picofarads with a plate separation of 0.2 millimeters. (a) What is the area of the plates? Now suppose that we slip some Mylar in between the capacitor plates. (b) What is the new capacitance?

Suppose you have a parallel plate capacitor with a capacitance of 4.425 picofarads with a plate separation of 0.2 millimeters. (a) What is the area of the plates? Now suppose that we slip some Mylar in between the capacitor plates. (b) What is the new capacitance?

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Suppose you have a parallel plate capacitor with a capacitance of 4.425 picofarads with a
plate separation of 0.2 millimeters. (a) What is the area of the plates?
Now suppose that we slip some Mylar in between the capacitor plates. (b) What is the
new capacitance?

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