  It is shown that the famous paradox of two charged capacitors is successfully
resolved if all the energy changes in the system are properly considered when
some of the charges are transferred from one capacitor to the other. It happens
so even when the connecting wire has an identically zero resistance, giving
rise to no Ohmic losses in the wire. It is shown that in such a case the
"missing energy" goes into the kinetic energy of conducting charges. It is
shown that radiation plays no significant role in resolving the paradox. The
problem can be formulated and successfully resolved in a novel form, where the
capacitance of the system is increased by stretching the plates of the original
capacitor, without involving any connecting wires in a circuit. There is an
outward self-force due to mutual repulsion among charges stored within each
capacitor plate, and the work done by these self-forces during an expansion is
indeed equal to the missing energy of the capacitor system.
