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ISBN: 9780321625922

Author: Douglas C. Giancoli

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

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A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal for…

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Chapter 3, Problem 5Q

During baseball practice, a player hits a very high fly ball and then runs in a straight line and catches it. Which had the greater displacement, the player or the ball? Explain.

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