An old building is being demolished by swinging a heavy metal ball from a crane. Suppose that such a 115kg ball swings from a 20-m-long wire at speed 12m/s as the wire passes the vertical orientation.

a) What tension force must the wire be able to withstand in order not to break?

b)Assume the ball stops after sinking 1.5 m into the wall. What was the average force that the ball exerted on the wall?

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two charges are fixed in place on the x-axis as shown. the charge at x = 0 is negative and has magnitude q = 2 μcoulombs (1 μcoulomb = 10-6 coulombs). the charge at x = d, (d = +12 cm), is positive and has magnitude q = 4 μcoulombs. find a point x = xo along the x-axis at which the electric field is zero.

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