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Unreasonable Results

Avg difficulty 2.5

(a) A certain parallel plate capacitor has plates of area 4.00 m2\text{4}.\text{00 m}^{2}, separated by 0.0100 mm of nylon, and stores 0.170 C of charge. What is the applied voltage? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are responsible or inconsistent?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 19.5 Capacitors and Dielectrics, exercise 24

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