A Police Crime Lab Is Trying to Determine Whether Someone

Multiple Choice

A police crime lab is trying to determine whether someone was murdered or died as a result of an accident. He was struck in the temple by a 4.20-kg sculpture that is alleged to have fallen off a bookcase. The sculpture presumably fell a distance of 1.43 m and the corner that struck him had an area of 0.250 cm². If the time for the sculpture to stop was 1.00 ms, the pressure on his temple, in N/m², was

A) 8.89 × 10⁴.
B) 1.65 × 10⁵.
C) 1.65 × 10⁶.
D) 8.89 × 10⁸.
E) 1.65 × 10⁹.