Capacitors and Dielectrics | Physics
Note also that the dielectric constant for air is very close to 1, so that air-filled capacitors act much like those with vacuum between their plates except that the air can become conductive if the electric field strength becomes too great. (Recall that [latex]E=frac{V}{d}[/latex] for a parallel plate capacitor.) Also shown in Table 1 are maximum electric field strengths in V/m, called