Question

A person swings a 0.33 kg tether ball tied to a 5.4 m rope in an approximately horizontal circle.

(a) If the maximum tension the rope can withstand before breaking is 11 N, what is the maximum angular speed of the ball?
Solve M R w^2 = Tmax.
to get w.

w = sqrt[Tmax/(M R)]

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