FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS - EXTENDED
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Author: Halliday
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Chapter 26, Problem 72P
A steel trolley-car rail has a cross-sectional area of 56.0 cm2. What is the resistance of 10.0 km of rail? The resistivity of the steel is 3.00 ×10−7 Ω·m.
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