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Transcribed Image Text:A flat hockey puck of mass M is rotating in a circle of radius R on a frictionless air hockey
table. It is held in motion by a massless cord which is connected to a dangling mass m
through a small hole. Show that the speed of the puck is given by v = /mgR/M.
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