Question: (a) Calculate the capacitance needed to get an RC time constant of 1.00 x 10 3 s with a 0.100- resistor. (b) What is unreasonable

(a) Calculate the capacitance needed to get an RC time constant of 1.00 x 103 s with a 0.100-Ω resistor.

(b) What is unreasonable about this result? 

(c) Which assumptions are responsible?

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