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20.3 Exercise 15

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What current flows through a 2.54-cm-diameter rod of pure silicon that is 20.0 cm long, when 1.00 × 10 3 V 1.00 × 10^{\text{3}} \text{V} is applied to it? (Such a rod may be used to make nuclear-particle detectors, for example.)

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