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Unreasonable Results

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The peak magnetic field strength in a residential microwave oven is 9.20×10−5 T9 . \text{20} \times \text{10}^{- 5} \text{ T}. (a) What is the intensity of the microwave? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) What is wrong about the premise?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 24.4 Energy in Electromagnetic Waves, exercise 21

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