What happens when an insulator is placed in an electric field
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insulator placed in an electric circuit stops the supply of electricity as it is a non conductor of. electricity
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What happens to an electric field when an insulator is placed in it?
The insulator is called a dielectric. The dielectic placed in a static electric field will make the field weaker. How come? One needs to remember that a material dielectric (not vacuum) contains positive and negative charges - most fundamentaly electrons and nuclei. They ballance each other, so in general the dielectric has no net charge. Also, they are bound, cannot move freely along the electric field - this is how a dielectric differs from a conductor. But these charges can shift by a little (while still being bound). Some substances have particles with inherently assymetric distribution of positive and negative charges - like water.Some other are initialy symmetrical, but the external electric field will pull the charges apart. Anyway, charges shift inside a dielectric and this spatial separation of charges causes an additional, induced electric field that is opposite to the primary field and counteracts it partially. If you placed such a dielectric in between the plates of the capacitor, then weaker electric field means lower potential difference between the plates, and lower potential difference for given charge (on the plates) means the capacity is increased.
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What happens to an electric field when an insulator is placed in it?
The insulator is called a dielectric. The dielectic placed in a static electric field will make the field weaker. How come? One needs to remember that a material dielectric (not vacuum) contains positive and negative charges - most fundamentaly electrons and nuclei. They ballance each other, so in general the dielectric has no net charge. Also, they are bound, cannot move freely along the electric field - this is how a dielectric differs from a conductor. But these charges can shift by a little (while still being bound). Some substances have particles with inherently assymetric distribution of positive and negative charges - like water.Some other are initialy symmetrical, but the external electric field will pull the charges apart. Anyway, charges shift inside a dielectric and this spatial separation of charges causes an additional, induced electric field that is opposite to the primary field and counteracts it partially. If you placed such a dielectric in between the plates of the capacitor, then weaker electric field means lower potential difference between the plates, and lower potential difference for given charge (on the plates) means the capacity is increased.
hope this will help you
stay blessed and happy always ☺️ ☺️
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