Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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ISBN: 9781259587399
Author: Eugene Hecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 97SP
An astronaut weighs 480 N on Earth. She visits the planet Krypton, which has a mass
and diameter each ten times that of Earth. Determine her weight at a distance of two
Kryptonian radii above that fictional planet.
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Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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