A stone is suspended from the free end of a wire that is wrapped around the outer rim of a pulley. The pulley is a uniform disk with mass 10.0 kg and radius 30.0 cm and turns on frictionless bearings. You measure that the stone travels 12.6 m in the first 3.00 s starting from rest. Find (a) the mass of the stone and (b) the tension in the wire.

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A stone is suspended from the free end of a wire that is
wrapped around the outer rim of a pulley. The pulley is a uniform disk with mass 10.0 kg and radius
30.0 cm and turns on frictionless bearings. You measure that the stone
travels 12.6 m in the first 3.00 s starting from rest. Find (a) the mass of
the stone and (b) the tension in the wire.

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