Question

Lin is at the carnival with her family. She is riding a ride thatconsists of a pod that riders sit in that is attached to a 7.3 m longarm that rotates the pod in a circle at a high speed. Much toher horror, the ride malfunctions while Lin is on it and her podis released by the central arm. Luckily, the pod simply comesto a halt after sliding 53.6 m. Lin finds later while investigatingthe accident that the pod with her inside had a total mass of380 kg and the coefficient of friction between the pod and theground isμ= 0.46. Assuming friction was the only force thatslowed the pod, what was the tension in the central arm whenthe ride failed?

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