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A molecule of gas in a container hits one wall normally and rebounds back. It suffers no collision and hits the opposite wall which is at an angle of with wall . Assuming the collisions to be elastic and the small collision time to be the same for both the walls, the magnitude of average force by wall provided to the molecule during collision satisfy: (magnitude of average force by wall is )


(a)
(b)
(c), both non-zero
(d)

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