Question: Two parallel-plate capacitors C = 6 F and C = 4 F are placed in a vacuum and charged as a parallel combination across

Two parallel-plate capacitors C = 6 F and C = 4 F 

Two parallel-plate capacitors C = 6 F and C = 4 F are placed in a vacuum and charged as a parallel combination across a 250 V ideal battery. i. Calculate the resulting charge on each capacitor. The capacitors are disconnected from the battery and from each other. They are then reconnected in series to one another and reconnected to the same battery. ii. By how much does the total energy of the system change? In this series configuration, the capacitor C is filled with a dielectric material with relative permeability E, - 2. Calculate the charge on each capacitor.

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