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A capacitor is connected across a battery .
a. Why done each plate receive a charge of exactly the same magnitude?
b. Is this true even if the plates are of different size?

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a. The charge from one plate gets transferred to another plate through battery. The battery pumps the charge from one plate to another.
b. Yes size of plates does not matter.
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