Lecture

Electrostatics: Capacitors Charging Work

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This lecture covers the calculation of the work required to charge a capacitor with N elementary charges, where the charge of the capacitor is Q = Ne. The charges are brought one by one, starting from an initial state with no charges. The total work is calculated by summing the individual works. The lecture also discusses the energy stored in a capacitor, emphasizing the case of a planar capacitor. Various examples and calculations related to capacitors and their energy are presented, including the calculation of capacitance. The lecture concludes with a reminder about the privacy rules of YouTube.

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