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Draw the equipotential and electric field line patterns for the following configurations:
1. A parallel plate capacitor
2. A parallel plate capacitor with a small, non-conducting cube placed between the two plates. (i.e. The cube does not take up the entire space between the plates)
3. A parallel plate capacitor but with one of the plates replaced by a circular conductor.
4. A parallel plate capacitor but with one of the plates replaced by an irregularly shaped (pointed) conductor. Why would high voltage engineers avoid using pointed conductors?
The capacitance C is the amount of charge stored per volt. i.e,
The electric field lines goes from positive potential to negative potential.