You have a bucket, which you fill with some water (the amount does not change the answer).  You whirl the bucket in a circle of radius 0.72 m.  Calculate the minimum tangential speed the water must have at its highest point, in m/s, so that it doesn't fall out of the bucket.

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You have a bucket, which you fill with some water (the amount does not change the answer).  You whirl the bucket in a circle of radius 0.72 m.  Calculate the minimum tangential speed the water must have at its highest point, in m/s, so that it doesn't fall out of the bucket.

(Please answer to the fourth decimal place - i.e 14.3225)

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Using the circular motion equations,

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