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ISBN: 9780321902788

Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain

Publisher: PEARSON

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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 8, Problem 12MCP

You drop an egg from rest with no air resistance. As it falls,

A. only its momentum is conserved.
B. only its kinetic energy is conserved.
C. both its momentum and its mechanical energy are conserved.
D. its mechanical energy is conserved, but its momentum is not conserved.

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