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A capacitor with an initial potential difference of 80.0 V is discharged through a resistor when a switch between them is closed at t=0. At t= 10.0s, the potential difference across the capacitor is 1.00V (a) What is time constant of the circuit? (b) What is the potential difference across the capacilor

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(a) 2.28 s; (b) 46.5mV
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