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Chapter 7, Problem 13E
You fly from Boston’s Logan Airport, at sea level, to Denver, altitude 1.6 km. Taking your mass as 65 kg and the zero of potential energy at Boston, what’s the gravitational potential energy when you’re (a) at the plane’s 11-km cruising altitude and (b) in Denver?
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