True or false — potential & capacitors

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   The capacitance of a capacitor depends on the applied voltage.

2. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Equipotential surfaces are perpendicular to the field lines.

3. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   No work is done moving a charge along an equipotential surface.

4. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Doubling the voltage on a capacitor doubles its stored charge.