the mighty capacitors
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
3
A Parallel plate capacitor is made by stacking 'N' equally spaced identical plates connected alternatively. If the capacitance between any two plates is 'C' , then the total capacitance of the capacitors is
C/N
NC
(N-1)C
(N-2)C
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1 solution
The given pattern corresponds to n-1 capacitors in parallel. This is because of alternate connection of plates.