Energy Stored in a Capacitor

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A  6μF capacitor is charged from 10V to 20V. Increase in energy will be

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The plates of a parallel plate condenser are pulled apart with a velocity v. If at any instant mutual distance of separation is d, then the magnitude of the time of rate of change of electrostatic energy of the capacity depends on d as follows: (potential difference between plates is kept constant)-

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If the charge on a body is increased by 2 μC, the energy stored in it increases by 21%. The original charge on the body in micro-coulombs is

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Two identical conducting very large plates P1 and P2 having charges +4Q and +6 Q are placed very closed to each other at separation d. The plate area of either face of the plate is A. The potential difference between plates P1 and P2 is

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In the above question, if plates P1 and P2 are connected by a thin conducting wire, then the amount of heat produced will be

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A parallel plate capacitor is connected to a battery. The plates are pulled apart with uniform speed. If x is the separation between the plates, then the rate of change of electrostatic energy of the capacitor is proportional to

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On increasing the plate separation of charged condenser, the energy

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Three plates A,B,C each of area 50 cm2 have separation 3 mm between A and B and 3 mm between B and C. The energy stored when the plates are fully charged is

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In the circuit given below, the capacitor C is charged by closing the switch S1 and opening the switch S2. After charging, the switch S1 is opened and S2 is closed, then the maximum current in the circuit

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The potential differences that must be applied across the parallel and series combination of 3 identical capacitors is such that the energy stored in them becomes the same. The ratio of potential difference in parallel to series combination is

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The capacity of a capacitor is 4×10-6 F and its potential is 100 V. The energy released on discharging it fully will be

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If E is the electric field intensity of an electrostatic field, then the electrostatic energy density is proportional to,

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10 μF capacitor is fully charged to a potential difference of 50 V After removing the source voltage it is connected to an uncharged capacitor in parallel. Now the potential difference across them becomes 20 V. The capacitance of the second capacitor is :

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Electric field at a distance 'r' from an infinitely large conducting sheet is proportional to:

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The plate separation in a parallel plate condenser is d and plate area is A. If it is charged to V volt & battery is disconnected then the work done in increasing the plate separation to 2d will be

 

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Two capacitors of equal capacitance C1=C2 are shown in the figure. Initially, while the switch S is open, one of the capacitors is uncharged and the other carries charge Q0. The energy stored in the charged capacitor is U0. Sometimes after the switch is closed, the capacitors C1 and C2 carry charges Q1 and Q2, respectively, the voltage across the capacitors are V1 and V2, and the energies stored in the capacitors are U1 and U2. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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In a parallel plate capacitor, the distance between the plates is d and the potential difference across the plates is V. The energy stored per unit volume between the plates of the capacitor is,

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The capacities of two conductors are C1 and C2 and their respective potentials are V1 and V2. If they are connected by a thin wire, then the loss of energy will be given by

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A parallel plate air capacitor has capacity C farad, potential V volt and energy E joule. When the gap between the plates is completely filled with dielectric