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A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance C is connected to a battery and is charged to a potential difference V. Another capacitor of capacitance 2C is similarly charged to a potential difference 2V. The charging battery is now disconnect and the capcitors are connected in parallel to each other in such a way that the positive terminal of one is connected to the negative terminal of the other. The final energy of the configuration is
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A.zero
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Solution
The digramatic representation of given problem is shown in the figure
The net charge shared between the two capacitors is
Q′ = Q2 - Q1 = 4CV - CV = 3CV
he two capacitors will have the same potential, say V′
The net capacitance of the parallel combination of two capacitance will be
C′ = C1 + C2 = C + 2C = 3C
The potential difference across the capacitance will be
The electrostatic energy of the capacitors will be
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