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Q. If plates of charged parallel plate capacitor are pulled apart:

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

Solution:

When separation increases capacitance decreases
$C \propto \frac{1}{ d }$
and $V=\frac{q}{C}$
$\therefore $ V increases