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Chapter 7, Problem 91AP
A uniformly charged ring of radius 10 cm is placed on a nonconducting table. It is found that 3.0 cm above the center of the half-ring the potential is —3.0 V with respect to zero potential at infinity. How much charge is in the half ring?
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