On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think you will find that there is a voltage rise, but not an energy > increase. > The reason for the voltage rise is that the capacitance is suddenly > reduced, > while the charge remains more or less constant. Any energy increase would > be > very interesting, and would open up a whole new area of physics.
On the contrary, if the energy didn't increase it would be interesting. You have raised the voltage and you still have the same number of charges to turn into a more dynamic form of electrical current, you agree that the charge remains the same and the voltage is increased, in other words the coulombs are unchanged, if before they could provide 1 amp for 1 ms before then they still can, but now at a far higher voltage, watts being volts x amps you can't possibly have a higher voltage and not have more energy unless the number of coulombs (number of excess charges) in the plate were significantly reduced.
