Inquiry into Physics
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ISBN: 9781337515863
Author: Ostdiek
Publisher: Cengage
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Chapter 1, Problem 18P
. As a baseball is being thrown it goes from 0 to 40 m/s in 0.15 s.
(a) What is the acceleration of the baseball?
(b) What is the acceleration in g’s?
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