?Charge is
stored on the plates and the energy in the gap between the plates.
No that was not
my point, correct or not I was saying that the energy is stored in the
e.s. field not on the plates or in the dielectric. Just energy stored in
an inductor is stored in the mag. field.
This energy results from the field
between the positive and negative charges on the plates.
Yes, the parameters
of the field are determined by the size of the plates, their distnce apart,
i.e. the thickness of the dielectric and the dielectric constant.
The dielectric helps in keeping the
charge apart.
I think it would
be misleading to say that, in one sense it's true but that's not it's purpose.?
The maximum amount of charge that can
be kept apart depends on the dielectric.
Now that language
is becomming more grotesque and losing meaning, I don't about keeping charge
apart. .
In case the amount exceeds this level,
then the dielectric breaks down
Your mixing dielecric
constant with dielectric strength.
and the capacitor gets discharged real
fast.
Are you talking
leakage due to exceeding dielecric strength?
The dielectric also helps in????
chanellising
What does that word meain? If you had
plates that had less area than the dielectric, I think the dielectric that
was 'sticking out' would be as it it weren't there. Like lunch meat that
sticks out of the sandwich. :-)
the field between the plates - this
results in different capacitances for different dielectrics if the area
of the plates and the distance between them remains the same.
