A 3.00-kg stone is dropped from a 39.2 m high building. When the stone has fallen 19.6 m, the magnitude of the impulse the Earth has received from the gravitational force exerted by the stone is

a. 9.80 N s.
b. 19.6 N s.
c. 29.4 N s.
d. 58.8 N s.
e. 118 N s.


d

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