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Posted by brian on Friday, February 18, 2011 at 12:10pm.

Tarzan tries to cross a river by swinging from one bank to the other on a vine that is 9.0 m long. His speed at the bottom of the swing is 8.8 m/s. Tarzan does not know that the vine has a breaking strength of 1.0 103 N. What is the largest mass that Tarzan can have and still make it safely across the river?

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