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

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

The ball will travel towards the center of the circle and fall down

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

It will fall down at the same place where the string breaks

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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