Question: While fishing, you get bored and start to swing a sinker weight around in a circle below you on a 0.25-m piece of fishing line.

While fishing, you get bored and start to swing a sinker weight around in a circle below you on a 0.25-m piece of fishing line. The weight makes a complete circle every 0.50s, what is the angle that the fishing line makes with the vertical?

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