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Homework Statement
A parallel plate capacitor with A=125 cm2 and d=1.25 mm is charged to a potential difference of 10.0 V. What is the charge density on each plate?
Homework Equations
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V = \frac{{\sigma d}}{{\varepsilon _0 }}\,\,\,\, \Rightarrow \,\,\,\,V\varepsilon _0 = \sigma d\,\,\,\, \Rightarrow \,\,\,\,\sigma = \frac{{V\varepsilon _0 }}{d}
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The Attempt at a Solution
Plugging in numbers, I get 8.5*10-8C/m2. But I never used the Area. My units seem to work. Did they throw in irrelavant data? Shouldn't I only need Area if I want total charge?
Should my answer be half of what I computed, because it is divided between 2 plates?