Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (3rd Edition)
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Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
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Chapter 6, Problem 2RQ
- 2. A circus performer jumps from a platform onto one end of a seesaw, while his or her partner, a child of age 12, stands on the other end. How high will the child “fly”?
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