In: Physics
(a) Show that the quantity
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has the dimension of speed, where ε0 is vacuum
permittivity and μ0 is vacuum permeability.
(b) Explain how each constant is important for electricity or
magnetism, and what does it mean in practical terms that one is
small and the other one is large?
(c) Compare the numerical value of
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with the speed of light.