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A car is moving with a constant speed of in a circular horizontal track of radius . A bob is suspended from the roof of the car by a massless string. The angle made by the string with the vertical will be : (Take )
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Let the frame of reference to be attached to the car with x-axis along horizontal direction and y-axis along vertical direction. Since the frame of reference is a rotating frame, a centrifugal force term should be added while applying Newton's second law.
Let be the angle made by the pendulum with the vertical.
Applying Newton's second law for horizontal direction:
(since the acceleration of the pendulum in the rotating frame is 0).
..........(1)
Applying Newton's second law for vertical direction:
..........(2)
Dividing equation 1 by equation 2:
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