An air-filled parallel-plate capacitor with a plate separation of 3.2 mm has a capacitance of 180 pF. What is the area of one of the capacitor's plates? Be careful about units.   the plate area, I got 6.51 cm^2 as an answer. What is the magnitude of electric field in the capacitor if it is charged to Q = 2.8 nC? What is the energy density that corresponds to this electric field

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An air-filled parallel-plate capacitor with a plate separation of 3.2 mm has a capacitance of 180 pF. What is the area of one of the capacitor's plates? Be careful about units.

 

the plate area, I got 6.51 cm^2 as an answer.

What is the magnitude of electric field in the capacitor if it is charged to Q = 2.8 nC?

What is the energy density that corresponds to this electric field?

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