College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
Publisher: PEARSON
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How many dollar bills would you have to stack to reach the moon? Would that be a cheaper way to get there than building and launching a spacecraft (which costs a few billion dollars)?
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