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A `450 muF` capacitor is charged to `295 V`. Then, a wire is connected between the plates. How many joule of thermal energy are produced as the capacitor discharges if all of the energy th was stored goes into heating the wire?

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`"Energy lost" = "energy stored" =1/2CV^2`
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