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9.6 Exercise 2

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Suppose you have a macroscopic salt crystal (that is, a crystal that is large enough to be visible with your unaided eye). It is made up of a huge number of unit cells. Is the center of mass of this crystal necessarily at the geometric center of the crystal?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 1, 9.6 Center of Mass, exercise 2

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