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Mistake Master · AP Physics C: E&M · Unit 10 · Step-Through Animation

The Slab That Pulls Itself In

You'll learnwhat a dielectric does to a capacitor, why the answers flip with the wiring, and why a neutral slab gets pulled into the gap.

Slide a plastic slab between the plates and the capacitor holds four times as much. What happens to the charge, the voltage and the energy depends on the wiring. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · C BECOMES κC · SPLIT, NEVER AVERAGE · v2

the slab multiplies C by κ · the wiring decides every other arrow
Before you start
What you're looking at
The capacitor from the last topic, with a violet slab sliding into its gap. Thick marks are free charge on the plates; thin marks on the slab are bound charge.
The question
What does the slab change, and what decides which way everything moves?
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