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Chapter 11, Problem 23E
In the Olympic hammer throw, a contestant whirls a 7.3-kg steel ball on the end of a 1.2-m cable. If the contestant’s arms reach an additional 90 cm from his rotation axis and if the ball’s speed just prior to release is 27 m/s, what’s the magnitude of the ball’s
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