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ISBN: 9780134988559

Author: Wolfson, Richard

Publisher: Pearson Education,

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Newton’s laws of motion describe the relationship between the motion of an object and forces acting on it. Newton’s law of motion has two types as follows:

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Chapter 5, Problem 52P

A bat crashes into the vertical front of an accelerating subway train. If the frictional coefficient between bat and train is 0.86, what’s the minimum acceleration of the train that will allow the bat to remain in place?

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