Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
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Author: Charles K Alexander, Matthew Sadiku
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 33CP
A lightning bolt carried a current of 2 kA and lasted for 3 ms. How many coulombs of charge were contained in the lightning bolt?
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