Electrostatics Study Notes Part 3 for Electrical Engineering

In this article, you will find the Study Notes on Electrostatics Part 3 which will cover the information such as Dielectric Constant and various relations and energy stored in a capacitor

Dielectric Constant

The relative permittivity of a material is known as its static relative permittivity or as its dielectric constant.

where, ε_r = Relative permittivity

ε₀= Permittivity in vacuum

ε = Absolute permittivity

* Relaxation time or rearrangement time

It can be defined as 

* Poisson’s equation 

* Laplace’s equation ∇²∇ = 0 in a charge-free (ρ_v = 0) region

Capacitance can be defined as

The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor:

Where S cross-sectional area and d is a distance in between two plates.

Energy Stored in a Capacitor

Energy stored in a capacitor is given by

where, C, V & Q are the capacitance, potential and charge on a plate respectively.

For a coaxial capacitor

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