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ISBN: 9780321909107

Author: Paul G. Hewitt

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 7, Problem 7RCQ

A car is raised a certain distance in a service-station lift and therefore has potential energy relative to the floor. If it were raised twice as high, how much more potential energy would it have?

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