EBK PHYSICS
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ISBN: 8220103026918
Author: Walker
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 68GP
At the local grocery store, you push a 14.5-kg shopping cart. You stop for a moment to add a bag of dog food to your cart. With a force of 12.0 N, you now accelerate the cart from rest through a distance of 2 29 m in 3.00 s. What was the mass of the dog food?
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