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A ball moves in the shape of a conical pendulum at constant speed. The distance L between the top of the cord and the center of the ball is 1.7m. The cord makes an angle of 37 degrees with the vertical. Find the period of the motion.

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The figure shows a conical pendulum, in which the bob (the small object at the lower end of the cord) moves in a horizontal circle at a constant speed. (The cord sweeps out a cone as the bob rotates.) The bob has a mass of 0.040kg, the string has length L0.90 m and negligible mass and the bob follows a circular path of the circumference 0.94 m. What are (a) the tension in the string and (b) the period of the motion?
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