Consider a basketball rolling (without slipping) down an inclined plane. The basketball is basically a thin spherical shell, so its moment of inertia I = 2 3 M R2 . Given the angle of 32.9 ◦ between the

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Consider a basketball rolling (without slipping) down an inclined plane. The basketball is basically a thin spherical shell, so its moment of inertia I = 2 3 M R2 . Given the angle of 32.9 ◦ between the incline and the horizontal, calculate the basketball’s center’s acceleration. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s 2 . Answer in units of m/s 2 .