Foundations of Astronomy (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Michael A. Seeds, Dana Backman
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Chapter 5, Problem 13RQ
You put your astronomy textbook and your No. 2 pencil on a ceramic tile floor, and you blow on each. Which has more inertia—the pencil, the textbook, or neither? Why? Which has more momentum? Why?
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