You wish to invent a sparker for lightning gas burners. A 1.5-A current from a battery runs through a primary coil. When the switch in this circuit is opened, the current decreases to zero in 0.60 ms, thus inducing a voltage in a secondary coil that causes a spark across a 0.50 mm gap. What must the mutual inductance be between the coils if the dielectric strength of the fumes between the gap is 2.4 x10 ^ V/m?

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You wish to invent a sparker for lightning gas burners. A 1.5-A current from a battery runs
through a primary coil. When the switch in this circuit is opened, the current decreases to zero in
0.60 ms, thus inducing a voltage in a secondary coil that causes a spark across a 0.50 mm gap.
What must the mutual inductance be between the coils if the dielectric strength of the fumes
between the gap is 2.4 x10 ^ V/m?

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