The Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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ISBN: 9780073513904
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 10CQ
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The condition under which the average speed of several vehicles is equal to the average speed of the individual vehicles of the group.
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