Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

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Energy Stored in a Capacitor

Energy stored in the capacitor is localized on the charges or the plates but is distributed in the field. Since in case of a parallel plate capacitor, the electric field is only between the plates i.e. in a volume ( AXd), the energy density

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