i ahd a doubt::
if we make a circuit consisting of only a capacitor and nothing else. meaning thereby connecting the surfaces of the parallel plates (the ones which do not form the capacitor) . what happens??
i think that nothing shoul happen but someone told me that it would get instantaneously discharged and there wuld be energy loss.
that got me confused pleeaeeese help...
Ishaan ,I do not understand why it should discharge . Battery is a supplier of potential difference and this creates electric field which makes charges to flow ,therefore capacitor should get charged. The wires connecting the capacitor may have some resistance ,since practically you cannot have resistance less wires.If this is the case then it is same as process of charging a capacitor.
well i did not mention any battery
also the capacitor is initially full charged
THERE IS NO BATTERY
well actually this is relly tricky
as what actually happens is that it instantaneously discharges.
the reason is:: after connecting te outer surfaces it becomes oly one conductor(as the potential at the two outer suyrfaces has to bec om same) thus it instantaneously discharges.
i also wud like to ask u another questoin if u have the archive cud u pleez explain me a certain question based on earthing a capacitor and stuff .it appeared in screening 1999. if u cant find it ill tell u the ques
Todwal u need a doctor,dont talk rubbish and confuse others.
The only thing happening here is an instantaneous discharge. Otherwise gauss has to be killed for his gauss law.