Question: A parallel - plate capacitor, with a measured capacitance C = 2 5 0 AapBpicofarads ( 2 5 0 1 0 1 2 F )

A parallel-plate capacitor, with a measured capacitance C =250AapBpicofarads (2501012 F), is charged to a potential difference of 2000 volts. The plates are 1.5 cm apart. We are interested in the field outside the capacitor, the fringing field which we usually ignore. In particular, we would like to know the field at a distance from the capacitor large compared with the size of the capacitor itself. This can be found by treating the charge distribution on the capacitor as a dipole. Estimate the electric field strength(a) atapoint3metersfromthecapacitorintheplaneoftheplates; (b) at a point the same distance away, in a direction perpendicularto the plates.

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