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5.3 Exercise 1

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At the time of its launch, the HMS Titanic was the most massive mobile object ever built, with a mass of 6.0×107kg6.0 \times 10^{7} \text{kg}. If a force of 6 MN (6×106N)\left(6 \times 10^{6} \text{N}\right) was applied to the ship, what acceleration would it experience?

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