Saturday, 28 February 2015

capacitance - Why can rolled up capacitors be modelled as flat parallel plates?


If you have two parallel plate of opposite charge with a dielectric in between, then


Capacitance, $ C = \frac{A \epsilon_{0}}{d} K$, where $ K $ is the dielectric constant.


This is used to calculate the capacitance of a capacitor. However, a real capacitor is actually two of those plates rolled up many times. Wouldn't the electric field $ \vec{E} $ be different?


So why is the equation for the capacitance still valid?




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