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Very funny... dip, but you, or whoever wrote it, made a physics mistake:

"What is the total kinetic energy of the ten-ton weight?  K=MV."

Kinetic energy does not equal mass times velocity, it equals .5mv^2

Mass times velocity is in fact momentum, a very different measure than energy. 


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