Atomic view of dielectrics in capacitors!for a few minutes

• Capacitor with vacuum between plates

• Capacitor with dielectric between plates

  • magnitude of E-field is reduced by “relative dielectric constant”

• Why?

  • dielectric polarization…...

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dielectric

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relative dielectric constant can be large

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