Skip to main content

All Questions

2 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
1 vote
0 answers
474 views

Potential energy on a spherical capacitor

I have been having some trouble understanding the storage of energy inside a spherical capacitor composed of two concentric spherical shells where the inside shell has radius $a$ and charge $2q$, ...
Bidon's user avatar
  • 637
0 votes
0 answers
175 views

Calculating Electrostatic Energy from Capacitance Matrix

Let's say I have two spherical conductors and I put some charge on each. As I understand it, the electrostatic energy $W$ in the fields will be equal to $$W = \frac{1}{2}C_{11}V_1^2 + \frac{1}{2}C_{22}...
pmal's user avatar
  • 962