A book is given a brief shove along a table top and released so that it slides a short distance and comes to rest. Galileo would say that the book stopped because
A) the ether slows it down to a stop.
B) of friction.
C) its natural motion is to come to rest.
D) of its inertia.
E) of gravity.
B
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A.
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B.
11
C.
13
D.
14
E.
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