A homemade capacitor is made from a sandwich of a piece of standard printer paper (8.5 in.

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A homemade capacitor is made from a sandwich of a piece of standard printer paper (8.5 in. by 11 in., 20-lb bond, 0.0038 in. thick) between two equal area sheets of aluminum foil. 

(a) Calculate the capacitance of this device. 

(b) What maximum potential can be put across it? 

(c) How much energy can be stored in it at maximum voltage?

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