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Chapter 23.8, Problem 1FE
The kinetic energy of a 1000-kg automobile traveling 20 m/s (70 km/h) would be about (a) 100 GeV, (b) 1000 TeV, (c) 106 TeV, (d) 1012 TeV, (e) 1018 TeV.
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