Electricity and magnetism : an elementary text-book, theoretical and practical (1920)
Glazebrook, Richard, Sir, 1854-1935 · Cambridge : The University press · leaf 76
ortional to the surface ofone of its plates and inversely proportional to the distancebetween them; it can be increased then either by reducingthis distance or by increasing the area of the surface. Thereare limits however below which we cannot reduce the distance,for if the dielectric be too thin… … Fig. 30. connected together by placing the jars on a sheet of tinfoil ormetal; the knobs of all the jars are in electrical communica-tion and thus the inne* coatings are also connected. In suchan arrangement it is clear that the capacity of the whole isthe sum of the capacities of the individual…
Electricity · Magnetism
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