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You whirl a 2.0 kg stone in a horizontal circle about your head. The rope attached to the stone is 1.5 m long. What is the tension in the rope?

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Tension for Horizontal Circle:
F = T = m * a = m * v^2 / R 

Your problem is missing velocity...

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