Really nice explanation. For me knowing what's happening "under the hood" it's always easier to remember things. Coz hard knowledge get always forgotten bud knowing the concept one can deduce the hard knowledge. The example with dialectic surface and thickness is perfect.
I don't fully understand how in the series case, if the charge can just act on the plate across the dielectric, essentially forcing electrons to move through the circuit; then why does the current stop when the combined p.d of the captors is equal to the batteries e.m.f? Is this because if it continued to flow beyond this point it would gain a greater p.d than the battery, thereby violating energy conservation law (and kirchoff voltage law)?
does this mean in the parallel circuit if it has the same capacitance in each capacitor, do you add them all? or do you have to divide them in half and get their total capacitance as half since they are all the same?
