Re:Two capacitor paradox
by wrycoder on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:57PM
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Energy doesn’t vanish. Part of it is dissipated in the wire’s resistance and the rest is radiated as EM energy in a ring-down oscillation.
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Re:Two capacitor paradox
by CamperBob2 on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:31PM
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Yes, and that's the point; to answer the paradox you have to explain where the seemingly-"vanished" energy goes, and that's relatively straightforward in the single-capacitor case.
It's then equally straightforward to see how the same explanation applies to the more contrived case of two capacitors.