Applied Physics (11th Edition)
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Author: Dale Ewen, Neill Schurter, Erik Gundersen
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Ch. 24.2 - If the tip of a pencil has a mass of 2.30 g, how...Ch. 24.2 - If a textbook has a mass of 1.30 kg, how much...Ch. 24.2 - How much mass is needed to create 600 J of energy?Ch. 24.2 - How much mass is needed to create 67.0 J of...Ch. 24 - What field or fields of physics intrigued Einstein...Ch. 24 - Which of the following did Albert Einstein not...Ch. 24 - Prob. 3RQCh. 24 - Prob. 4RQCh. 24 - If you are riding a bike at 10.0 m/s and throw a...Ch. 24 - Prob. 6RQ
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