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The figure shows two identical parallel plate capacitor connected to a battery with the switch S closed.

The switch is now opened and the free space between the plates of the capacitor is filled with a dielectric of dielectric constant 3. Find the ratio of the total electrostatic energy stored in both capacitors before and after the introduction of the dielectric.

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