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Chapter 6 Problem 93GP

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Problem 93GP

Some electric power companies use water to store energy. Water is pumped from a low reservoir to a high reservoir. To store the energy produced in 1.0 hour by a 180-MW electric power plant, how many cubic meters of water will have to be pumped from the lower to the upper reservoir? Assume the upper reservoir is an average of 380 m above the lower one. Water has a mass of 1.00 x 103 for every 1.0 m3.

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Title Physics: Principles with Applications 7 
Author Douglas C. Giancoli
ISBN 9780321625922

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