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A parallel plate capacitor has plates A and B each of area `0.5m^2` and a plate separation of 0.2 m. A dielectric slab of thickness 0.1m and dielectric constant 2.5 is placed between the two plates as shown -

(a) FInd the capacitance of the capacitor, if the surface charge densities of the two plates are `8.854xx10^(-10)Cm^(-2)`.
(b) Graphically represent the variation of electric field between the two plates from A to B.

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