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Homework Statement
1. The distance between two parallel plates is increased while they remain hooked to a battery. Which one of the following statements is true?
The voltage between the plates will decrease.
The electric field between the plates will increase.
The charge on the plates will decrease.
The capacitance of these two plates will increase.
None of the above.
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The Attempt at a Solution
So for question one,
What does the battery have to do with anything!? That just means that the voltage is constant?
C = εA / d
So if distance is increased the answer is supposed to be that the charge will decrease. What?! Doesn't make any sense. What does the charge have to do with anything? I thought the charge came from the electrons moving around, so why would moving the plates affect the electrons at all?