A highly conducting sheet of aluminium foil of negligible thickness is placed between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor. The foil is parallel to the plates at distance d2 from positive plate where d is distance between plates. If the capacitance before the insertion of foil was 10μF , its value after the insertion of foil will be:
10μF
Zero
20μF
5μF
A
20μF
B
10μF
C
5μF
D
Zero
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Initial capacitor C=ϵ0Ad=10μR After inserting aluminium foil the effective capacitor is series combination of C1=C2=ϵ0Ad2 ∴1Ceff=1C1+1C2 ⇒Ceff=C12 ⇒Ceff=ϵ0Ad ⇒Ceff=10μF
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