Connecting two capacitors: charge sharing and energy loss
Join a charged capacitor to another through a resistor; the common potential is (C1V1 + C2V2)/(C1 + C2) and half-ish of the energy is lost as heat.
About this experiment
| Subject | Physics |
|---|---|
| Class | 12 |
| Chapter | 2. Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance |
| NCERT section | 2.7 |
| Level | Advanced (JEE / Olympiad) |
| Time | about 12 minutes |
| Access | Included in a PractiSci plan |
What you do in the lab
Change the controls and watch the physics behave in real time in 3D. Live readouts and graphs show the numbers behind it, and the Learn tab has the theory, procedure, observations and viva questions. Works on a phone or a laptop, in English and Hindi.
Topics: capacitor · charge sharing · energy loss · JEE