College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
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Chapter 4, Problem 12CQ
Which “feels” a greater pull due to gravity, a heavy object or a light object? So why do heavy objects not accelerate faster than light objects?
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