Consider a simple RC circuit as shown in Figure 1.Process 1:  In the circuit the switch S is closed at t=0 and the capacitor is fully charged to voltage V0 (i.e., charging continues for time T>>RC). In the process some dissipation ED  occurs across the resistance R. The amount of energy finally stored in the fully charged capacitor is EC .Process 2: In a different process the voltage is first set to  V03 and maintained for a charging time T>>RC. Then the voltage is raised to  2V03 without discharging the capacitor and again maintained for a time T>>RC. The process is repeated one more time by raising the voltage to V0  and the capacitor is charged to the same final voltage V0 as in Process 1.These two processes are depicted in Figure 2. In Process 1, the energy stored in the capacitor EC and heat dissipated across resistance ED are related by:In Process 2, total energy dissipated across the resistance ED is: