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PHYSICS 241E - Pledged Problem 1 - Section 5
Due October 23, 1996

Two identical air-filled capacitors with capacitances C tex2html_wrap_inline33 are connected to a battery (V) as shown. Subsequently, one of the capacitors is filled with a material having dielectric constant tex2html_wrap_inline35 . What is the resulting change in stored energy?

figure38

No dielectric:

eqnarray17

Add dielectric to one capacitor:

eqnarray21



Blaine E. Norum
Tue Oct 22 11:53:00 EDT 1996