To determine the energy stored in this configuration,
consider initially two uncharged conductors 1 and 2 Imagine next a
process of transferring charge from conductor 2 to conductor 1 bit by
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bit, so that at the end, conductor 1 gets charge Q By
charge conservation, conductor 2 has charge –Q at
the end (Fig 2 30 )