The membrane that surrounds a certain type of living cell has a surface area of 7.3 x 10-9 m² and a thickness of 1.3x 108 m. Assume that the membrane behaves like a parallel plate capacitor and has a dielectric constant of 5.5. (a) The potential on the outer surface of the membrane is +75.4 mV greater than that on the inside surface. How much charge resides on the outer surface? (b) If the charge in part (a) is due to K* ions (charge +e), how many such ions are present on the outer Curfaco?
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![The membrane that surrounds a certain type of living cell has a surface area of 7.3 x 10° m² and a
thickness of 1.3x 108 m. Assume that the membrane behaves like a parallel plate capacitor and has
a dielectric constant of 5.5. (a) The potential on the outer surface of the membrane is +75.4 mV
greater than that on the inside surface. How much charge resides on the outer surface? (b) If the
charge in part (a) is due to K* ions (charge +e), how many such ions are present on the outer
surface?](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fbeb4d536-f388-44bc-91f3-a72ed115bd90%2F0cce30b7-1759-4673-8009-7daae99af453%2F4gp5nm_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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Given
Area A = 7.3 × 10-9 m2
Thickness d = 1.3 × 10-8 m
Dielectric constant k = 5.5
Potential difference V = 75.4 mV
= 75.4 × 10-3 V
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