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JEE Advanced 2019 — Paper 1 — Question 17

A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance CC has spacing dd between two plates having area A. The region between the plates is filled with N dielectric layers, parallel to its plates, each with thickness δ=dN\delta=\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{N}}. The dielectric constant of the mth m^{\text {th }} layer is Km=K(1+mN)K_{m}=K\left(1+\frac{m}{N}\right). For a very large N(>103)N\left(>10^{3}\right), the capacitance CC is α(Kε0Adln⁡2)\alpha\left(\frac{K \varepsilon_{0} A}{d \ln 2}\right). The value of α\alpha will be ____\_\_\_\_ . [ ϵ0\epsilon_{0} is the permittivity of free space]

Answer: 1

Numerical answer — enter this value.

Step-by-step solution

1dC=dxk(1+mN)ε0 A\frac{1}{\mathrm{dC}}=\frac{\mathrm{dx}}{\mathrm{k}\left(1+\frac{\mathrm{m}}{\mathrm{N}}\right) \varepsilon_{0} \mathrm{~A}}

∫1dC=∫0ddxkε0(1+xd)\int \frac{1}{\mathrm{dC}}=\int_{0}^{\mathrm{d}} \frac{\mathrm{dx}}{\mathrm{k} \varepsilon_{0}\left(1+\frac{\mathrm{x}}{\mathrm{d}}\right)}

⇒Ceq=Kε0 A dln⁡2\Rightarrow \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{eq}}=\frac{\mathrm{K} \varepsilon_{0} \mathrm{~A}}{\mathrm{~d} \ln 2}

α=1.00\alpha=1.00

x=dN(m)x=\frac{d}{N}(m)

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Exam
JEE Advanced 2019
Paper
Paper 1
Subject
Physics
Chapter
Capacitors and R-C Circuits
Topic
Effect of Dielectrics