Re: capacitance formula

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Original poster: "Ray von Postel by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <vonpostel-at-comcast-dot-net>



Tesla list wrote:

>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
>
>
Ed:
Granted, but the voltage has nothing to do with the capacitance in farads 
which was my reading of the original question. Did I miss something?
Ray