HI friends I would like to put my thoughts as well om this problem. What Raman sir has written is absolutly correct but i feel that there is a confusion over here. When Raman sir apply work energy theorm in his last post he is applying it on an electron (Electric force is applied on it and it gets KE). But what Vish want (As mentioned in 4th post of this thread) is to apply work energy theorm on the plate of a capacitor when we change the position from d to 2d without accilerating (Or to be more correct it should be by giving it infinitely small acceleration).
Now vish to look at your problem When two plates are kept at a distance of d from each other they are attracting each other by a force of Q^2/(2A
o). To move it at infinitely small acceleration you must apply an equall force (or infinitely greater). If you want to apply work energy theorm the net force on plate was zero and there was no increase in its KE so work energy theorm is valid but that does not yield any result (zer = zero does not gives you any insight)
But if you find work done only by external force it is d*Q^2/(2A
o) = Q^2(1/Cf-1/Ci) (where Ci and Cf are initial and final capacitances) which is equall to increasein energy of the capacitors. So External work done is stored in form of energy of capacitor.
Prabhat even as far as my knowledge go I think that work energy theorm can be apllied to non point objects. But if you actually have some paper which suggests that it can't be done we would be glad if you can share it with us.
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