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

A
The ball will travel towards the center of the circle and fall down
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
C
It will fall down at the same place where the string breaks
D
None of these
Solution:

At the moment the string breaks, the ball is moving on a horizontal line tangential to the circular path it was tracking. When the string is broken, it’s force on the ball disappears and the ball is influenced only by gravity. It follows a parabolic path to the floor in the direction of the tangent to the circular path it had before.

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