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You’re al the state fair. A sideshow barker claims that the star of the show can throw a 7.3-kg Olympic-style hammer “faster than a speeding bullet.” You recall that bullets travel at several hundreds of meters per second. The burly hammer thrower whirls the hammer in a circle that you estimate to be 2.4 m in diameter. You guess the chain holding the hammer makes an angle of 10° with the horizontal. When the hammer flies off, is it really moving faster than a bullet?
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