A Boy Whirls A Stone In A Horizontal Circle 2 M Above The Ground By Means Of A String 1.25 M Long. The String Breaks And The Stone Flies Off Horizontally, Striking The Ground 10 M Away. What Is The Magnitude Of The Centripetal Acceleration During Circular Motion? Take g = 10 

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Question

A boy whirls a stone in a horizontal circle 2 m above the ground by means of a string 1.25 m long. The string breaks and the stone flies off horizontally, striking the ground 10 m away. What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration during circular motion? Take g = 10 

Solution

Correct option is

 

Given, h = 2 mR = 1.25 m and horizontal distance s = 10 m. When the string breaks, the stone is projected in the horizontal direction, which means that there is no initial vertical velocity.

From 

                         

The horizontal distance travelled in time t is  

                         

Where v is the velocity of the stone in the horizontal direction which is the same as its velocity in circular motion.

Eliminating t from (i) and (ii) we get

                        

Now, centripetal acceleration is  

                      

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