Find the area of the plates of a parallel plate capacitor having a capacitance of 0.491 uF (micro-Farads), with the plates separated by 0.2 mm of paper. The dielectric constant for paper is "k = 3.7". answer choices a)5.0 m^2 b)4.0 m^2 c)2.0 m^2 d)3.0 m^2

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Find the area of the plates of a parallel plate capacitor having a capacitance of 0.491 uF (micro-Farads), with the plates separated by 0.2 mm of paper. The dielectric constant for paper is "k = 3.7".

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a)5.0 m^2
b)4.0 m^2
c)2.0 m^2
d)3.0 m^2
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