Question: In the conical pendulum in Example 5.20 (Section 5.4), which of the forces do work on the bob while it is swinging? In Example 5.20,
In the conical pendulum in Example 5.20 (Section 5.4), which of the forces do work on the bob while it is swinging?
In Example 5.20,
An inventor designs a pendulum clock using a bob with mass m at the end of a thin wire of length L. Instead of swinging back and forth, the bob is to move in a horizontal circle with constant speed with the wire making a fixed angle with the vertical direction (Fig. 5.32a). This is called a conical pendulum because the suspending wire traces out a cone. Find the tension F in the wire and the period T (the time for one revolution of the bob).
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