Capacitance – PHY 232
3.a) What is the effect of increasing plate separation on capacitance?
3.b) What is the effect of increasing plate area on capacitance?
3.c) What is the effect of increasing dielectric constant on capacitance?
3.d) What is the minimum number of individual measurements necessary
to find the values of the dielectric constant κ and the spurious
capacitance Csys?
3.e) What is the advantage of using the fitting instead of individual
measurements to determine the dielectric constant κ and the
spurious capacitance Csys?
3.f) How would you build a capacitor to maximize the amount of stored
charge? What practical limitations do you foresee?
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