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Statement

14.3.10. How many times will the potential difference and capacitance of a long cylindrical capacitor change when it moves at a speed along the axis?

Solution

There are two ways to solve this problem; we will see both.

Because charge is a conserved quantity, we can say that for all frames.
Suppose that in the frame of the capacitor, the capacitor has a height and a surface area ; then the capacitance in the moving frame is:

In the Earth frame, the capacitor is moving with velocity along its axis; then in the Earth frame the surface area of the capacitor will be the same,
but the height will be:

Thus, the capacitance will be:

Using the conserved quantity , we can obtain the voltage :

On the other hand, we can use the equation for the voltage of the capacitor . Using it, we see that because the distance between plates in the Earth frame will be times smaller, and the field does not change between frames,
the voltage in the Earth frame will be times smaller.

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