Posted by Trevor on Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 6:45pm.
mg is the downward force, mv^2/r is the centripetal force, tension is the string force at the angle.
Tan theta= tension/mg
solve for tension.
I did it the way you said to solve it and I got a number different than the correct answer.
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