Question: A boy whirls a ball on a string in a horizontal circle of radius 0.8 m. How many revolutions per minute must the ball make

A boy whirls a ball on a string in a horizontal circle of radius 0.8 m. How many revolutions per minute must the ball make if the magnitude of its centripetal acceleration is to be the same as the free- fall acceleration due to gravity g?

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