Answer:
The charge stored in the capacitor will stay the same. However, the electric potential across the two plates will increase. (Assuming that the permittivity of the space between the two plates stays the same.)
Explanation:
The two plates of this capacitor are no longer connected to each other. As a result, there's no way for the charge on one plate to move to the other.
, the amount of charge stored in this capacitor, will stay the same.
The formula
relates the electric potential across a capacitor to:
, the charge stored in the capacitor, and
, the capacitance of this capacitor.
While
stays the same, moving the two plates apart could affect the potential
by changing the capacitance
of this capacitor. The formula for the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor is:
,
where
is the permittivity of the material between the two plates.
is the area of each of the two plates.
is the distance between the two plates.
Assume that the two plates are separated with vacuum. Moving the two plates apart will not affect the value of
. Neither will that change the area of the two plates.
However, as
(the distance between the two plates) increases, the value of
will become smaller. In other words, moving the two plates of a parallel-plate capacitor apart would reduce its capacitance.
On the other hand, the formula
can be rewritten as:
.
The value of
(charge stored in this capacitor) stays the same. As the value of
becomes smaller, the value of the fraction will become larger. Hence, the electric potential across this capacitor will become larger as the two plates are moved away from one another.
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The devices don't "draw" 120v. The 120v comes to your house from the power company. They decide it should be 120v and that's what they send you. It's hypothetically technically possible for you to change that, but if you try it, you'll definitely burn the house down.
The total resistance of those two devices in parallel is 6 and 2/3 ohms. That doesn't depend on what they're plugged into. It would still be 6 and 2/3 ohms if they were connected in parallel, wrapped in tissue, sealed in a jar of chicken soup and stored in a box on a high shelf.
But since they ARE plugged into 120v, they draw 18 Amperes from the socket, and they turn all of that electrical energy into 2160 watts of heat. That's about the same as a good size toaster oven, and you have to figure out a way to get rid of all that heat before you burn the house down.