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Grade 12Electrostatics

If 8 identical water drops assumed spherical, each charged to a potential energy U coalesce to a single drop. The potential energy of the single drop will be

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
As energy is the scalar quantity and is conserved always,
The resultant potential for the big drop would be the some of the potential energies.
Hence,
Unet = 8U J is the required energy.