Conductors and Capacitors
What is the primary function of a capacitor in an electrical circuit?
To dissipate electrical energy as heat.
To store electrical charge and energy.
To amplify electrical signals.
To regulate the flow of current in a circuit.
Which of the following relationships between capacitance , charge , and voltage is correct?
A parallel-plate capacitor has a plate area of 0.01 and a separation of 0.001 m. If the dielectric constant is 1, what is the capacitance?
8.85 x F
8.85 x F
8.85 x F
8.85 x F
A parallel-plate capacitor has an initial capacitance . If the plate area is doubled and the plate separation is also doubled, what is the new capacitance?
A parallel-plate capacitor has a charge on its plates and an area . What is the electric field between the plates?
A parallel plate capacitor has charge and area . If the charge is doubled, what happens to the electric field between the plates?
The electric field remains the same.
The electric field is halved.
The electric field is doubled.
The electric field quadruples.
How does the energy stored in a capacitor change if the voltage across it is doubled, assuming the capacitance remains constant?
The energy is halved.
The energy remains the same.
The energy is doubled.
The energy quadruples.

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A 2 F capacitor is charged to a potential difference of 10 V. How much energy is stored in the capacitor?
100 J
200 J
100 mJ
200 mJ
A parallel-plate capacitor has a capacitance and a voltage across its plates. What is the energy density (energy per unit volume) in the capacitor?
A parallel-plate capacitor is connected to a voltage source. What happens to the capacitance, charge, and voltage when a dielectric material is inserted between the plates while the capacitor remains connected to the voltage source?
Capacitance decreases, charge decreases, voltage remains constant.
Capacitance increases, charge increases, voltage remains constant.
Capacitance decreases, charge remains constant, voltage decreases.
Capacitance increases, charge remains constant, voltage increases.