Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 10, Problem 23CQ
Based upon his experiments, Joule proposed that the water in a pool at the bottom of a waterfall should have a higher temperature than that at the top. Why might this be so? Explain.
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