From: "JACK L. URETSKY (C)1998; HEP DIVISION, ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB ARGONNE, IL 60439" <JLU@HEP.ANL.GOV>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:22:34 -0500
Hi J. Epstein-
You write:
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Seems to me you have to do work to bring the two capacitors together
(from infinity -- since they are initialy viewed as independent.
J. Epstein
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So do you conclude, as I do, that there is no issue of
"missing energy" because the closed system in which energy
is conserved consists of the two capacitors and the person
(or device) that brings the two capacitors together? The
person must exert a force to combine the two plus leads and
the two minus leads.
Thank you.
Regards,
Jack
"I scored the next great triumph for science myself,
to wit, how the milk gets into the cow. Both of us
had marveled over that mystery a long time. We had
followed the cows around for years - that is, in the
daytime - but had never caught them drinking fluid of
that color."
Mark Twain, Extract from Eve's
Autobiography