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, Dielectrics in capacitors serve three purposes:
1. to keep the conducting plates from coming in contact, allowing for smaller
plate separations and therefore higher capacitances;
2. to increase the effective capacitance by reducing the electric field strength,
which means you get the same charge at a lower voltage; and
3. to reduce the possibility of shorting out by sparking (more formally known as
dielectric breakdown) during operation at high voltage.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2022 8:22 PM
physics Page 1
,physics Page 2
,Ch24
Monday, 20 June 2022 8:11 PM
physics Page 3
, Dielectrics in capacitors serve three purposes:
1. to keep the conducting plates from coming in contact, allowing for smaller
plate separations and therefore higher capacitances;
2. to increase the effective capacitance by reducing the electric field strength,
which means you get the same charge at a lower voltage; and
3. to reduce the possibility of shorting out by sparking (more formally known as
dielectric breakdown) during operation at high voltage.
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