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A parallel plate capacitor with a slab of material between the plates is connected to a battery and allowed to charge up the slab and a dialectic material is removed from between the plates of the capacitor while the capacitor is still connected to the battery after this is done what happens next?
A. The capacitance of a capacitor increases.
B. The energy stored in the electric field between the plates increases
C. The distance between the plates increases to compensate for the loss of the dielectric material
D. The voltage across the plates of the capacitor decreases
E. The amount of charge on the capacitor plate decreases
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