JEE Advanced · Physics · 18. Capacitance
A container has a base of and height , as shown in the figure. It has two parallel electrically conducting walls each of area . The remaining walls of the container are thin and non-conducting. The container is being filled with a liquid of dielectric constant at a uniform rate of . What is the value of the capacitance of the container after seconds?
[Given: Permittivity of free space , the effects of the non-conducting walls on the capacitance are negligible]

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