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gneill, I personally feel that my method (conservation of charge) is the correct one. I feel as if conservation of energy does not apply for some reason. I am not sure at all, so I am posting this question.

I am a TA for a physics teacher. I wrote a problem that the students did in the lab quiz. The students tried to use conservation of energy instead of conservation of charge, which I used. Both methods seem sound to me, but they produce different answers. I need help figuring out which method is...