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ISBN: 9780078028229

Author: Charles K Alexander, Matthew Sadiku

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Chapter 1, Problem 33CP

A lightning bolt carried a current of 2 kA and lasted for 3 ms. How many coulombs of charge were contained in the lightning bolt?

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