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A daredevil plans to bungee jump from a balloon 52.0 m above the ground. He will use a uniform elastic cord, tied to a harness around his body, to stop his fall at a point 15.0 m above the ground. Model his body as a particle and the cord as having negligible mass and obeying Hooke's law. In a preliminary test he finds that when hanging at rest from a 5.00-m length of the cord, his body weight stretches it by 1.80 m. He will drop from rest at the point where the top end of a longer section of the cord is attached to the stationary balloon.
(a) What length of cord should he use?
(b) What maximum acceleration will he experience?
(a) What length of cord should he use?
(b) What maximum acceleration will he experience?
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