The tension in a 2 m length of string that whirls a 1 kg mass at 4 m/s in a horizontal circle is calculated to be 8 N. How do you alculate the tension for the following case: twice the mass?
1 Answer
Nov 12, 2015
Explanation:
The tension in the string is balanced by the centripetal force.
This is given by
This is equal to
So you can see that, without doing any calculations, doubling