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Physics: Principles with Applications 6
Cars used to be built as rigid as possible to withstand collisions. Today, though, cars are designed to have "crumple zones" that collapse upon impact. What is the advantage of this new design?

College Physics 1
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College Physics 12
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Probability and Statistics 4
Suppose that the lifetime of a certain type of lamp has an exponential distribution for which the value of the parameter is unknown. A random sample of n lamps of this type are tested for a period of T hours and the number X of lamps that fail during this period is observed, but the times at which t

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