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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 and mass m. If the temperature of the block is raised by ΔT,the potential difference V across the capacitance is _______ ?

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virang1 Jhaveri ·

Total Energy in the capcitor is cV2/2
msdt = cv2/2
v = √(2msΔt/c)

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