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(a) If your car's standard tires are 24 inches in diameter, at what rate (in rpm) are your wheels rotating when you are driving at a freeway speed of 60 mi/h?
(b) Suppose you put oversize, 30-inch-diameter tires on your car. How fast are you really going when your speedometer reads 60 mi/h?
(c) If you now put on undersize, 20-inch-diameter tires, what will the speedometer read when you are actually traveling at 50 mi/h?
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Fundamentals of Physics
ISBN: 978-0471758013
8th Extended edition
Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick
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