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STEP Support Programme

87-S2-Q12

Code: 
87-S2-Q12
Year: 
1987
Step: 
2
Question number: 
12

String, ring, static equilibrium, shortest distance, plane polar coordinates, equation of curve.

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[STEP II 1987 Question 12 (Mechanics)]

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