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Exercise 13

Pendulum in an accelerating railway car

Theory used: Fictitious forces

A pendulum hangs from the ceiling of a railway car that accelerates on a straight horizontal track with constant acceleration . Compute the angle that the string forms with the vertical when the pendulum is at rest relative to the car.

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