Re: capacitance formula

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:

 > Yes, but there are only two plates in this capacitor. Physically there is
 > only one capacitor. It consists of two plates separated by two different
 > dielectrics.
 > Ray
 >
 > >The Captain

	The voltage across each material will be inversely proportional to the
reciprocal of its dielectric constant.  Partially filling a space with
high deiectric constant material can lead to voltage breakdown which
wouldn't otherwise occur.

Ed