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Breaking a Capacitor into Combinations

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For a given potential difference V how would you connect two capacitors, to obtain greater stored charge :

A

series

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parallel

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C

series and parallel combined

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cannot say

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Solution

The correct option is A parallel
Since $q = C V$ & capacitance of two capacitor is more in parallel combination as compared to series combinations i.e., $C_{P} > C_{S}$ .

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