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Grade 6Electrostatics

A fully charged capacitor has a capacitance 'c' It. is discharged through a small coil of resistance wire embedded in a thermally insulated block of specific heat capacity 's' arid mass ‘m’ if the temperature of the block is raised by ' ?T ',the potential difference 'V' across the capacitance is
(a) mC?T/s
(b) v2mC?T/s
(c) v2ms?T/C
(d) ms?T/C

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12 Years agoGrade 6
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12 Years ago

(c) Applying conservation of energy,

½ CV2 = m.s ?t; V = v 2 m.s.?t/C