Consider a plane parallel-plate capacitor made of two strips of aluminum foil separated by a layer...

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Consider a plane parallel-plate capacitor made of two strips of aluminum foil separated by a layer of paraffin-coated paper. Each strip of foil and paper is 3.80 cm wide. The foil is 0.00400 mm thick, and the paper is 0.0200 mm thick and has a dielectric constant of 3.70. What length should the strips be if a capacitance of 5.00 x 10-8 F is desired? (If, after this plane capacitor is formed, a second paper strip can be added below the foil-paper-foil stack and the resulting assembly rolled into a cylindrical form- similar to that shown in the figure below-the capacitance can be doubled because both surfaces of each foil strip would then store charge. Without the second strip of paper, however, rolling the layers would result in a short circuit.) A tubular capacitor consists of alternating metal foil and paper rolled into a cylinder. E Paper Metal foil Consider a plane parallel-plate capacitor made of two strips of aluminum foil separated by a layer of paraffin-coated paper. Each strip of foil and paper is 3.80 cm wide. The foil is 0.00400 mm thick, and the paper is 0.0200 mm thick and has a dielectric constant of 3.70. What length should the strips be if a capacitance of 5.00 x 10-8 F is desired? (If, after this plane capacitor is formed, a second paper strip can be added below the foil-paper-foil stack and the resulting assembly rolled into a cylindrical form- similar to that shown in the figure below-the capacitance can be doubled because both surfaces of each foil strip would then store charge. Without the second strip of paper, however, rolling the layers would result in a short circuit.) A tubular capacitor consists of alternating metal foil and paper rolled into a cylinder. E Paper Metal foil