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Calculating Energy Stored in a Capacitor?

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Dodgers31296

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Aug 5, 2012

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How do you find the work done in charging a capacitor and the work done on a charge in an electric field.
I don't know the formulas.

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Aug 6, 2012

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Find an equation for the energy stored in a capacitor. Conservation of energy means it's the same as the work done charging the capacitor.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/capeng.html

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