The space between the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor of capacitance C (without any dielectric) is now filled with three dielectric slabs of dielectric constants \(K _1=2, K_2=3\), and \(K _3=5\) (as shown in the figure). If new capacitance is \(\frac{ n }{3} C\) then the value of \(n\) is ___________.

\(C _1=\frac{5 \in_0 A / 2}{d / 2}=\frac{5 \in_0 A}{ d }=5 C\)
\(C _2=\frac{2 \in_0 A / 2}{d / 2}=\frac{2 \in_0 A}{ d }=2 C\)
\(C _1 \& C _2\) in series.
\(C^{\prime}=\frac{C_1 C_2}{C_1+C_2}=\frac{(5 C)(2 C)}{7 C}=\frac{10}{7} C\)
\(C _3=\frac{3 \in_0 A / 2}{d / 2}=3 C\)
\(C _4=\frac{2 \epsilon_0 A / 2}{d / 2}=2 C\)
\(C _4 \& C _3\) in series; \(C ^{\prime \prime}=\frac{(2 C )(3 C )}{5 C }=\frac{6}{5} C\)
\(C ^{\prime} \& C ^{\prime \prime}\) in parallel;
So, \(C _{ eq }= C \left(\frac{6}{5}+\frac{10}{7}\right)= C \left(\frac{42+50}{35}\right)=\left(\frac{92}{35}\right) C\)
\(\frac{92}{35} C =\frac{ nC }{3}\)
\(n =\frac{92 \times 3}{35}=7.9 \Rightarrow n \simeq 8\)