Q5.21 A stone of mass 0.25 kg tied to the end of a string is whirled round in a circle of radius 1.5 m with a speed of 40 rev./min in a horizontal plane. What is the tension in the string? What is the maximum speed with which the stone can be whirled around if the string can withstand a maximum tension of 200 N?
We are given, frequency :
So, the angular velocity becomes :
By Newton's law of motion, we can write :
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Now, we are given maximum tension and we need to find maximum velocity for that :
Thus,
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