Question
You hold a bucket attached to a rope, and in the bucket is a 500.0 g rock. You swing the bucket so the rock moves in a vertical circle 1.6 m in diameter.
What is the minimum speed the rock must have at the top of the circle if it is to always stay in contact with the bottom of the bucket?
What is the minimum speed the rock must have at the top of the circle if it is to always stay in contact with the bottom of the bucket?
Answers
Elena
mv²/R =mg
v=sqrt(gR)
v=sqrt(gR)
Anonymous
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