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When a capacitor is connected to a battery, a brief current flows suggesting that there are energy transfers taking place in the circuit. Since the current then stops flowing, the energy transfers must also stop.
A charged capacitor can be discharged through a motor and shown to do work. Therefore the capacitor must also be a store of energy. |
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So
what happened to the energy that was previously transferred during the brief current flow?
