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Q: A boy is swinging a ball attached to a string in a horizontal circle.If the string snaps

  • 1
    the ball will travel towards the center of the circle and fall down
  • 2
    it will continue to travel along a tangent to the circle at the point the ball was at the time of snapping and finally fall down
  • 3
    it will fall down at the same place where the string breaks
  • 4
    none of these
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Answer : 2. "it will continue to travel along a tangent to the circle at the point the ball was at the time of snapping and finally fall down"
Explanation :

Answer: B) it will continue to travel along a tangent to the circle at the point the ball was at the time of snapping and finally fall down Explanation: The centripetal force having  been removed the body cannot execute the curved path. (B) is Correct.

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