Physics: Principles with Applications (7th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32162-592-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-32162-592-2

Chapter 17 - Electric Potential - Problems - Page 498: 54

Answer

$PE=1.8\times 10^3J$

Work Step by Step

We can find the energy stored as: $PE=\frac{1}{2}\frac{Q^2d}{\epsilon_{\circ}A}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $PE=\frac{1}{2}\frac{(370\times 10^{-6})^2\times 1.5\times10^{-3}}{8.85\times 10^{-12}(8.0\times 10^{-2})^2}=1.8\times 10^3J$
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