REVISION QUESTIONS ON CAPACITANCE

1. This work done in charging a capacitor appears as ...........................................

2. Any non-conducting material placed between the plates of a capacitor is called ...............
3. Whenever such insulators (Dielectric materials) are inserted between the plates of a capacitor,
the capacitance .....................
4. Considering a parallel –plate capacitor whose plates are separated by air or vacuum, having
charge Qo and capacitance Co. The p·d across this capacitor is ........
5. When a dielectric is inserted between the parallel plates of the capacitor, a charge (increase) in
the voltage occurs to a new value Ѵ as a result of.................
6. The capacitance C of a capacitor due to a dielectric material is mathematically expressed as _
7. The ratio of capacitance with or without the insulator is called ______ of the dielectric
material
8. The maximum voltage that can be applied to a capacitor without causing a discharge depends
on the _________________of the dielectric material
9. A potential difference ∆V exists between the conductors due to the presence of _
10. The quantity of charge, Q, on capacitor is linearly proportional to the ______ between the
conductors
11. The ratio of the magnitude of the charge on either conductor to the magnitude of the potential
difference between them is known as _______
12. By definition, capacitance is always a _____________quantity
13. The capacitor’s ability to store charge and electric potential energy is known as ____
14. The equivalent unit of Farad in capacitance is ____________
15. The capacitance of a given pair of conductors depends on the _______of the conductors
16. The surface charge density, (𝛿) on either of the plates of a capacitor is given as ______
17. The electric field (𝐸 ) between the plates of a capacitor is given as ____________
18. The capacitance of a parallel- plate capacitor is proportional to the ________of its plates
19. The capacitance of a parallel- plate capacitor is inversely proportional to the __________
20. When the capacitors are charged in series, each capacitor acquires the ____________
21. The total potential difference Ѵ, across any number of capacitor connected in series is
__________to the sum of the potential drop across the individual capacitors
22. The equivalent capacitance of a series combination of capacitors is always _______than any
individual capacitance in the combination.