Homework Help: College Physics

Posted by Dawn on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 1:34pm.

A block is hung by a string from the inside roof of a van. When the van goes straight ahead at a speed of 29 m/s, the block hangs vertically down. But when the van maintains this same speed around an unbanked curve (radius = 135 m), the block swings toward the outside of the curve. Then the string makes an angle θ with the vertical. Find θ

College Physics - bobpursley, Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 1:35pm
tanTheta= centripetal acceleration/g

centripetal acceleration= v^2/r
solve for theta.
College Physics - Dawn, Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 1:36pm
Got it. Thank you!

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