Allegedly uniform field in a capacitor

“Because the electric field is uniformly spread over the plates ….”

“Electricity and Magnetism” by J H Fewkes and Yarwood, pub. London: University Tutorial Press, 1956, p. 505

Fewkes and Yarwood draw a uniform field between the plates of a capacitor.

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“Fundamentals of Physics” by R Resnick and J Walker, pub. Wiley 2001, p761

“32.10 Displacement Current

“…. Assuming that the electric field E between the two [capacitor] plates is uniform …. …. Because the electric field is uniformly spread over the plates, the same is true of this fictitious displacement current ….”