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 15ICA
You have been hired as an intern for a plastics manufacturing company. When researching several types of plastics (Acrylic, HDPE, PET) to use for a new bottle design, the following facts were determined by a previous intern. Your boss has asked you to check the work of the previous intern.
The previous intern listed several values of the specific gravity of a plastic material. Which of the following is not a physically possible specific gravity of the plastic? Explain your select on.
- A. 0.00085
- B. 0.00125
- C. 0.85
- D. 1.25
- E. 85
- F. 125
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