Stored Electric Energy Density

$"Electric"_(ed) = 1/(8pik)|E|^2$

$(E)"Electric Field Vector"$

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The Stored Electric Energy is found using the following formula: $"Stored Energy" = 1/(8pik)|E|^2$ where:

Stored Energy = directly proportional to the square of the field strength in all cases
π ≅ 3.14159
k = Coulomb's constant
E = electric field vector

References

22.4 Calculating energy in fields by Benjamin Crowell, Light and Matter licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.