Free-body diagrams: Necessary or sufficient?

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 790, Issue , 2005, Pages 177-180

  Rosengrant, David ^a   Van Heuvelen, Alan ^a   Etkina, Eugenia ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749660365     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2084730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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