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19.7 Exercise 5

Avg difficulty 2.5

Consider a parallel plate capacitor with metal plates, each of square shape of 1.00 m on a side, separated by 1.00 mm. What is the energy of this capacitor with 3.00×103 V applied to it?

  1. 3.98×10-2 J
  2. 5.08×1014 J
  3. 1.33×10-5 J
  4. 1.69×1011 J

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 19.7 Energy Stored in Capacitors, exercise 5

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