College Physics: A Strategic Approach (3rd Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321879721
Author: Randall D. Knight (Professor Emeritus), Brian Jones, Stuart Field
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 4CQ
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To explain: The choice you have to take when you stand on a remote desert in a hope of rescue, should you eat chicken at once and then the corn or you will feed the corn to the chicken to keep it alive, and then eat the chicken.
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College Physics: A Strategic Approach (3rd Edition)
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