NEET UG 2017 · Physics · Question 17
NEET 2017 Physics, question 17
Question 17 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Physics question from Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance. Its idea, Charge Sharing and Common Potential, was asked twice, in 2017 and 2022, across NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q17 · Physics
A capacitor is charged by a battery. The battery is removed and another identical uncharged capacitor is connected in parallel. The total electrostatic energy of resulting system
- 1increases by a factor of 4
- 2decreases by a factor of 2Official answer
- 3remains the same
- 4increases by a factor of 2
Official answer: option 2 · CBSE official answer key
Same idea
Charge Sharing and Common Potential, in other papers
NEET asked this idea twice, in 2017 and 2022. The other question below.
- 2022 Q42A capacitor of capacitance C = 900 pF is charged fully by 100 V battery B as shown in figure (a). Then it is disconnected from the battery…Numerical · Medium
Charge Sharing and Common Potential: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance in ten years of NEET
23 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.2 a paper. Capacitance alone had 14.