Timeline for How do capacitor plates maintain equal but opposite charges in a circuit?
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| Oct 16, 2023 at 10:44 | comment | added | Dheeraj Gujrathi | 2)For field lines, it can be proved using gauss law too, consider a surface loop which cover complete circuit, as we know that circuit is neutral, net flux must be zero, and using assumption that wire elements have no capacitance, the net flux coming out from one plate of capacitor must end up at another plate as these two plates are only ones who can hold charges in circuits, causing net flux zero... | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 10:40 | comment | added | Dheeraj Gujrathi | 1)As long as I remember, The first question has simple answer, We assume that everything other than capacitor cannot hold charge, that is the capacitance of circuit wires and other elements is zero, hence only capacitor can hold charge, meaning, by using electrostatic conditions applied to infinite disk/plate capacitor(which is pretty good approximation),we get that charge must be equal and opposite using gauss law | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 5:34 | answer | added | IL. | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 20:07 | answer | added | rcgldr | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 11:38 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 29, 2020 at 6:19 | answer | added | rob♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 5:32 | answer | added | niels nielsen | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 4:40 | answer | added | user243016 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 4:13 | answer | added | probably_someone | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 3:59 | comment | added | Alfred Centauri | "(despite the fact that no current actually flows between the two plates)" - that's not a true statement as written. It's true that (ideally) no electric charge flows between the plates of a capacitor. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 3:55 | answer | added | The Photon | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 3:49 | comment | added | Bully Maguire | Can you use gauss' law to prove that two plates have equal and opposite charges, assuming field lines starting from one plate end up on another | |
| May 29, 2020 at 3:34 | history | asked | dts | CC BY-SA 4.0 |