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PHYSICS 241E - Pledged Problem 1 - Section 7
Due October 28, 1996

Two identical air-filled capacitors with capacitances C tex2html_wrap_inline65 are connected to a battery (V) as shown. Subsequently, one of the capacitors is filled with a material having dielectric constant tex2html_wrap_inline67 . What is the resulting change in stored energy?

figure70

No dielectric:

eqnarray17

Add dielectric to one capacitor:

eqnarray33



Blaine E. Norum
Mon Oct 28 14:41:53 EST 1996