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Chapter 6, Problem 36AP
A truck is moving with constant acceleration a up a hill that makes an angle ϕ with the horizontal as in Figure P6.36. A small sphere of mass m is suspended from the ceiling of the truck by a light cord. If the pendulum makes a constant angle θ with the perpendicular to the ceiling, what is a?
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