College Physics
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ISBN: 9780134601823
Author: ETKINA, Eugenia, Planinšič, G. (gorazd), Van Heuvelen, Alan
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Chapter 5, Problem 21P
* Your car speeds around the 80-m-radius curved exit ramp of a freeway. A 70-kg student holds the armrest of the car door, exerting a 220-N force on it in order to prevent himself from sliding across the vinyl-covered back seat of the car and slamming into his friend. How fast is the car moving in meters per second and miles per hour? What assumptions did you make?
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