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Transcribed Image Text:You are asked to construct a capacitor having a capacitance near 1 nF and a breakdown potential in excess of 12000 V. You think of
using the sides of a tall plastic drinking glass as a dielectric (with a dielectric constant 6.1 and dielectric strength 11 kV/mm), lining the
inside and outside curved surfaces with aluminum foil to act as the plates. The glass is 15 cm tall with an inner radius of 3.33 cm and an
outer radius of 3.51 cm. (a) What are the capacitance and (b) breakdown potential of this capacitor?
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(b) Number i
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