While playing sock baseball in the living room, a child swings a pair of socks attached to the end of a string in a circular path above his head. If the socks travel at a constant speed of 2.7 m/s and the string is 0.7 m long, what is the acceleration (in m/s2) experienced by the socks?

While playing sock baseball in the living room, a child swings a pair of socks attached to the end of a string in a circular path above his head. If the socks travel at a constant speed of 2.7 m/s and the string is 0.7 m long, what is the acceleration (in m/s2) experienced by the socks?

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