COLLEGE PHYSICS:VOL.1
2nd Edition
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Author: ETKINA
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Chapter 2, Problem 80P
** Some people in a hotel are dropping water balloons from their open window onto the ground below. The balloons take 0.15 s to pass your 1.6-m-tall window. Where should security look for the raucous hotel guests? Indicate any assumptions that you made in your solution.
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COLLEGE PHYSICS:VOL.1
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