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IniquiTrance
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If I swing around a mass attached to a string, and then suddenly let go, the mass will fly off in a direction tangent to the circle it was swinging around.
My question is, what will happen to the string? I know it will follow the mass on its tangental path, but how do we explain the behavior of the string? What forces cause it to accelerate behind the mass?
My question is, what will happen to the string? I know it will follow the mass on its tangental path, but how do we explain the behavior of the string? What forces cause it to accelerate behind the mass?