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 8, Problem 33RQ
The specific gravity of honey is 1.43. A cylindrical container of honey 10 feet [ft] deep is inside a dome pressurized to a surface pressure of 0sss.06 atmospheres [atm] on the surface of Pluto. The total pressure at the bottom of the container is 67 millimeters of mercury [mm Hg]. What is the gravitational acceleration of Pluto, in units of meters per second squared [m/s2]?
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