College Physics: Explore And Apply, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)
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Author: Eugenia Etkina, Gorazd Planinsic, Alan Van Heuvelen, Gorzad Planinsic
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Chapter 3, Problem 12P
* A student holds a thin aluminum pie pan horizontally 2 m above the ground and releases it Using a motion detector, she obtains the graph shown in Figure P3.12. Based on her measurements, (a) draw force diagrams for the pie pan at times 0.05 s, 0.3 s, and 0.7 s, and (b) estimate the distance that the pan travels once it reaches constant speed.
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