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Chapter 6, Problem 2RB
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Given: Hard drive.
To find: The three speeds at which a spindle will rotate inside a hard drive.
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The top and the bottom of the disk in the hard drive contains the read\write head which moves over the surface of the disk, as the disk rotates on the spindle...
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