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A parallel-plate capacitor under the key of a keyboard has circular plates that are separated by 0.0500 mm and filled with a dielectric with k = 4.00. When the potential difference across the plates is 5.00 V , the magnitude of the charge on each plate is 8.897 pC.
- What is the radius of one of the plates?
- When the key is pressed, the distance between the plates decreases, increasing the capacitance to 1.85 pF. What is the separation between the plates when the key is pressed?
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