Physics Capacitance Problem-University of California San Diego .
We have a 3.2V battery, hooked up to a parallel plate capacitor filled with air. The area of the capacitor is 6 cm2 and the separation is 0.2cm. We then insert a dielectric material (dielectric constant=3) in the space between the plates. After this insertion, the charge on the plates:
a. is increased by a factor of 3
b. stays the same
c. is decreased by a factor of 3
d. is decreased by a factor of 9
e. is increased by a factor of 9