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 11RQ
A website you discover lists the density of a plastic as 7.93 pound-mass per gallon [lbm/gal], which is a very strange way to list the density of a solid. State the specific gravity of the plastic.
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