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The electric field on the axis of a uniformly charged ring has magnitude 400 kN/C at a point 6 cm from the ring center. The magnitude 15 cm from the center is 125 kN/C; in both cases the field points away from the ring.
a. Find the rings radius
b. find the rings charge
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