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I had a doubt about why inside a capacitor having equal and opposite charges on both plates have a electric field $Q/A€$ and not $2Q/A€$ (where $€$ stands for permittivity).

But a question at stack exchange answer this by saying that superposition will not apply for when electric field terminate at the negative charge

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/65194/291481

i want to know why not the same concept is applied in this case of infinitely long line charges having opposite charges

why we are using superposition to find electric field at a point between the two line charges

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Qmechanic
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Samardeep singh
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  • Because before superposition the field is $Q/(2A\epsilon_0)$ and after superposition it is $Q/(A\epsilon_0)$. There is no conflict with the superposition principle. – verdelite Mar 18 '21 at 22:39

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As @verdelite suggest, the electric field from the positive (or negative) charges is $Q/(2A\epsilon_0)$ (i.e. the electric field of infinity uniform charged plate) and using superposition principle (note that this is just a fancy name for electric field additivity) the total electric field is $Q/(2A\epsilon_0)$.

ziv
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  • I have two questions (1) are you not considering any thickness of sheet (2) I am not asking question about an isolated infinite sheet I have a question about the field in a capacitor because if the sheet is thick and all the charges will be on inside surface to make the field zero in the mass of metal in the case of a capacitor so field inside the capacitor due to any one plate will be Q/AE0 and directed towards the negative plate – Samardeep singh Mar 19 '21 at 09:49
  • (1) yes, I'm not considering any thickness of the sheet because the charges inside conductor arranged in the surface. (2) you must consider the capacitor plate as infinity plate if you want to get simple uniform electric filed (we can use this assumption because the plate in capacitor are very close compare to the distance between them). – ziv Mar 19 '21 at 11:18
  • Note that this assumptions are usually done when we describe the model of capacitor. – ziv Mar 19 '21 at 11:35
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    ok got your point – Samardeep singh Mar 19 '21 at 11:39
  • good, welcome to physics stack exchange – ziv Mar 19 '21 at 11:47