A Police Crime Lab Is Trying to Determine Whether Someone

question 1

Multiple Choice

A police crime lab is trying to determine whether someone was murdered or died as a result of an accident. He was struck in the temple by a 4.20-kg sculpture that is alleged to have fallen off a bookcase. The sculpture presumably fell a distance of 1.43 m and the corner that struck him had an area of 0.250 cm². If the time for the sculpture to stop was 1.00 ms, the pressure on his temple, in N/m², was

• A)8.89 × 10⁴.
• B)1.65 × 10⁵.
• C)1.65 × 10⁶.
• D)8.89 × 10⁸.
• E)1.65 × 10⁹.

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