Re: Missing Energy

[Herb Schulz <herbs@INTERACCESS.COM>]

At 12:22 PM -0500 on 5/20/99, C wrote:
>        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

Howdy,

But there is less stored energy afterward than before, not more!?  Or do I
have this wrong?  I always thought that the energy was radiated away (and
also went into thermal energy if the resistance in the wire was taken into
account.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs@interaccess.com)