Essential University Physics Plus Mastering Physics with eText -- Access Card Package (3rd Edition)
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Chapter 4, Problem 52P
A biologist is studying the growth of rats on the Space Station. To determine a rat’s mass, she puts it in a 320-g cage, attaches a spring scale, and pulls so that the scale reads 0.46 N. If rat and cage accelerate at 0.40 m/s2, what’s the rat’s mass?
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