College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
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Chapter 2, Problem 20P
|| Figure 2.50 shows the position x of a crawling spider as a function of time. Use this graph to draw a numerical graph of the spider’s velocity as a function of time over the same time interval.
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