Question

You tie a 0.2 kg beetle to the end of a 1.4 m long piece of string and twirl your new friend in a circle at 10 m / s. The tension in the string in newtons, rounded to the nearest integer, is [a]. The beetle is experiencing [b] g's of force where a "g" is a measure of acceleration based on multiples of the freefall acceleration. For example, if an object's acceleration is 98 m / s², it is experiencing "10g's". Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a g.

Answer 1