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Given information

 Given an isolated capacitor and asked the change in energy stored if the separation of the plates is doubled.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
The energy stored in a capacitor is calculated as,
 
Where stands for capacitance.
 
stands for the potential difference.
 
The capacitance is calculated as,
 
 
Where is the separation between plates and is the area of the plate.

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