College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
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Chapter 4, Problem 26P
|| Two crates, A and S, sit at rest side by side on a frictionless horizontal surface. The crates have masses mA and mB. A horizontal force
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