EP PHYSICS -MOD.MASTERING (18W)
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Chapter 12, Problem 8CQ
One day in the future you may take a pleasure cruise to the Moon. While there you might climb a lunar mountain and throw a rock horizontally from its summit. If, in principle, you could throw the rock fast enough, it might end up hitting you in the back. Explain.
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