Look at the figure below and answer the following questions:


(i) Name the kind of motion of the stone.


(ii) It this an example of accelerated motion? Why?


(iii)Name the force that keeps the stone in its path.


(iv) What is the direction of this force? Draw it in your answer sheet.

(i) The stone is moving with circular motion.

(ii) Yes it is an example of accelerated motion. Though the velocity is constant but as the thread is moving it is changing its direction at each point which is tangential to the circular path.


(iii) Centripetal force keeps the stone in its path.


(iv) The force is directed towards the centre of the circular path.



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