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Author: Douglas C. Giancoli
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Chapter 4, Problem 2OQ
A line by the poet T. S. Eliot (from Murder in the Cathedral) has the women of Canterbury say “the earth presses up against our feet." What force is this?
- A. Gravity.
- The normal force.
- A friction force.
- Centrifugal force.
- E. No force—they are being poetic.
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