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 2, Problem 30CQ
For a uniformly accelerated car, is the average acceleration equal to the instantaneous acceleration? Explain.
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