Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 5E
A 0.35-kg ball moving in a circle at the end of a string has a centripetal acceleration of 5 m/s2. What is the magnitude of the
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