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What happen to the energy stored in the capacitor while the capacitor is discharging?
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∙ 11y ago
It flows out of the capacitor into the external circuit
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∙ 14y ago
Wiki User
∙ 11y agoIt is released as the electric field reduces.
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Locate the defective capacitor, short the terminals to ground to release any stored energy and prevent shock, remove the old capacitor then install the new capacitor wired as the old one was and secure it in the bracket that held the old one - done.
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Why does the current in a capacitor become zero or almost zero when fully charged?
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What is the total capacitance of this arrangement the charge of each capacitor and the voltage across the last capacitor and the energy stored in it?
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How is hydroelectric energy stored for later use?
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How does a capacitor act as battery?
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ideally there will not be any resistance to the capacitor,so at this condition it should not not discharge the stored energy. but practically small resistance will be there in the capacitor so the energy stored by the capacitor will be discharged through resistance.
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(a) Charge Will increase (b) Potential difference will stay the same (c) Capacitance will increase (d) Stored energy will decrease
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