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19.5 Exercise 3

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A parallel plate capacitor with adjustable-size square plates is placed in a circuit. How does the charge on the capacitor change as the length of the sides of the plates is increased?

  1. it grows proportional to length2
  2. it grows proportional to length
  3. it shrinks proportional to length
  4. it shrinks proportional to length2

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 19.5 Capacitors and Dielectrics, exercise 3

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