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The insulated plates of a parallel plate capacitor has a charge density `sigma`. Show that that the work done in changing the distance from `d_(1)` to `d_(2)` is

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`U=(sigma^(2)A)/(2epsi_(0)kappa)(d_(2)-d_(1))`
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