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Bob LaMontagne wrote:
For the capacitor, excluding mechanical deformation energy losses, etc., the
energy is in the field - the electrons cannot store energy internally - they
are point objects. Others on the list have calculated the thermal KE
associated with the electrons themselves and it was negligible compared to
1/2 CV^2.
I'm not interested in what list members may have calculated;
calculations cannot be used as evidence. Obviously the energy associated
with the heat dissipated by the resistor, during charging, is not
negligible, it is 1/2 CV^2 (I'm assuming it has actually been measured).