Your physics study partner asks you to consider a parallelplate capacitor that has a dielectric completely filling the volume between the plates. He then claims that Eqs. (29.13) and (29.14) show that the conduction current in the dielectric equals the displacement current in the dielectric. Do you agree? Explain.

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Yes, both the equations show that the conduction current in the dielectric equals the displacement current in the dielectric.

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Equations (29.13) and (29.14) are general equations that can be applied to any material by substituting the value of for the specific dielectric material.

Equation (29.13) is;


Equation (29.14) is;


Hence, yes, both the equations show that the conduction current in the dielectric equals the displacement current in the dielectric.

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