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Two 1.60-cm-diameter disks spaced 1.80 mm apart form a parallel-plate capacitor. The electric field between the disks is 5.20×105 V/m .
A) What is the voltage across the capacitor?
B) An electron is launched from the negative plate. It strikes the positive plate at a speed of 2.10×107 m/s . What was the electron's speed as it left the negative plate?
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