Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th 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 16, Problem 9ICA
Determine the length of one side of a cube of solid gold, in units of inches. You may assume that the specific gravity of gold is 19.3 and that the user will provide the mass of the cube in units of kilograms. As a test case, you can assume that the user has a 0.4 kilogram cube.
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