Hello,
While looking at some basic capacitor information I ran into a concept I hadn't really thought about before, self-capacitance. While perusing the article section on wiki I began to wonder if the material type would have an effect on the self-capacitance of a material.

Essentially, my question is this:
For two objects of identical geometry and volume, and same applied voltage, would a difference in the relative permittivity (or perhaps some other property of the material making up either object) lead to a difference in the self capacitance of the material.

Thanks for any help.

 

Yes of course.

 

Hello,

The attached PDF shows an other example of self-capacitance.

Bertus

 

Thanks for the help, I know its basic stuff, but we all gotta start somewhere.

 

Thanks for the help, I know its basic stuff, but we all gotta start somewhere.

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