A weight with mass mw=150 g is tied to a piece of thread wrapped around a spool, which is suspended in such a way that it can rotate freely. When the weight is released, it accelerates toward the floor as the thread unwinds. Assume that the spool can be treated as a uniform solid cylinder of radius R=4.00 cm and mass Ms=200 g. Find the magnitude ?a of the acceleration of the weight as it descends. Assume the thread has negligible mass and does not slip or stretch as it unwinds. Use ?=9.81 m/s2.   Find the tension T in the thread.

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A weight with mass mw=150 g is tied to a piece of thread wrapped around a spool, which is suspended in such a way that it can rotate freely. When the weight is released, it accelerates toward the floor as the thread unwinds.

Assume that the spool can be treated as a uniform solid cylinder of radius R=4.00 cm and mass Ms=200 g. Find the magnitude ?a of the acceleration of the weight as it descends. Assume the thread has negligible mass and does not slip or stretch as it unwinds.

Use ?=9.81 m/s2.

 

Find the tension T in the thread.

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