
University Physics with Modern Physics (14th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman
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Chapter 12.4, Problem 12.4TYU
A maintenance crew is working on a section of a three-lane highway, leaving only one lane open to traffic. The result is much slower traffic flow (a traffic jam). Do cars on a highway behave like the molecules of (i) an incompressible fluid or (ii) a compressible fluid?
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