A domesticated pig places a 100g rubber puck on a turntable. The turntable is set at a rate of 78rpm,and the pig knows the coefficient of static friction is 0.37 between the puck and turntable surface.
A) How far out from the center of the turntable can the puck be places before it spins off?
B) what difference would you expect from (A) if:
(i) the mass of the puck were doubled
(ii) the coefficient of static friction were doubled
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