Question

There is an air filled 1 pF parallel plate capacitor. When the plate separation is doubled and the space is filled with wax, the capacitance increases to 2pF. The dielectric constant of wax is

(a) 2

(b) 4

(c) 6      

(d) 8

Answer

(b) 4

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