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Given information

Given Data :

Parallel plate capacitor with an area  
 
The separation distance between the capacitor  
 
Voltage   
Permeability of free space  
 
Separation of the plate increased    
 
Work required to pull the plates to their new separation  
 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
The charge on the capacitor is given by :
 
 
 
Where 
 
Capacitance is given by :
 
 
 
Substituting  in Equation (1), we have
 
 

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