Problem B14:
Consider the conical pendulum shown above. A bob of mass m is attached to a massless
string. The bob moves in a horizontal circle, and the string makes an angle
&theta with respect to the vertical. If the tangent of the angle &theta equals
tan &theta =
√ (n1/n2)2-1 ,
what is the tension T in the string. If T = n3 mg,
what is n3? Note that n1, n2 and n3 are
unitless.
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