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Thread #168517   Message #4071318
Posted By: Doug Chadwick
09-Sep-20 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Trump boat parade - science of it
Subject: RE: BS: Trump boat parade - science of it
The force that the book exerts on the table, F = mg where 'm' is the mass of book and 'g' is the acceleration due to gravity.

Mass*velocity does not equal kinetic energy. It is, as said before, momentum. Kinetic energy = 1/2mv2.

DC