1.

If the voltage across a parallel-plate capacitor is doubled, its capacitance

(a) doubles.
(b) drops by half.
(c) remains the same.

2. An isolated spherical conductor of radius 10 cm is charged to 2 kV. (a) How much charge is on the
conductor? (b) What is the capacitance of the sphere? (c) How does the capacitance change if the sphere is
charged to 6 kV?

3. In the figure C1= 2 μF, C2 = 6 μF, and C3 = 3.5 μF. (a) Find the equivalent capacitance
of this combination. (b) If the breakdown voltages of the individual capacitors are V1 = 100
V, V2 = 50 V, and V3 = 400 V, what maximum voltage can be placed across points a and b?

4. A 10-μF capacitor is charged to Q = 4 μC.

(a) How much energy is stored in the capacitor?
(b) If half the charge is removed, how much energy
remains?

5. A parallel-plate capacitor with plates of area 500 cm2 is charged to a potential difference V and is then
disconnected from the voltage source. When the plates are moved 0.4 cm farther apart, the voltage
between the plates increases by 100 V. (a) What is the charge Q on the positive plate of the capacitor? (b)
How much does the energy stored in the capacitor increase due to the movement of the plates?

6. A parallel-plate capacitor has rectangular plates of length L = 10 cm and width W = 4 cm. The region
between the plates is filled with a dielectric slab of dielectric constant κ = 4 which can slide along the
length of the capacitor. Initially, the slab completely fills the rectangular region, and the capacitor holds a
charge of 0.2 μC. How far should the dielectric slab be pulled so that the stored energy is double its initial
value?

7. A parallel-plate, air-gap capacitor has a capacitance of 0.14 μF. The plates are 0.5 mm apart. (a) What is
the area of each plate? (b) What is the potential difference if the capacitor is charged to 3.2 μC? (c)
What is the stored energy? (d) How much charge can the capacitor carry before dielectric breakdown
of the air between the plates occurs?
8. Two capacitors C1 = 4 μF and C2 = 12 μF are connected in series across a 12-V battery. They are
carefully disconnected so that they are not discharged and are reconnected to each other with positive
plate to positive plate and negative plate to negative plate. (a) Find the potential difference across
each capacitor after they are connected. (b) Find the initial and final energy stored in the capacitors.

9. A parallel-plate capacitor has a plate area of 1.0 m2 and a plate separation distance of 0.5 cm.
Completely filling the space between the conducting plates is a glass plate having a dielectric constant
of 5.0. The capacitor is charged to a potential difference of 12.0 V and is then removed from its
charging source. How much work is required to pull the glass plate out of the capacitor?