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An air-filled parallel-plate capacitor is connected to a battery and they allowed to charge up now a slab of dielectric material is placed between the plate of a capacitor while the capacitor is still connected to the battery after this is done what happens?
A. The charge on the capacitoe decreases
B. The capacitance of the capacitor decreases
C. The energy stored in the field between the capacitor plates increases
D. The voltage across a capacitor increases
E. None of these choices are true
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