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Consider the following figure.
(a) Find the electric potential, taking zero at infinity, at the upper right corner (the corner without a charge) of the rectangle in the figure. (Let x = 5.70 cm and y = 3.50 cm.)
(b) Repeat if the 2.00-µC charge is replaced with a charge of −2.00 µC.
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