A man whirls a stone of mass 250 gram, tied at the end of a string of length 2 m in a horizontal circle and at a height of 5 m from the ground. The string breaks and the stone flies off tangenitially and strikes the ground at a horizontal distance of 10 m from the man. What was the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of the stone, when it was moving in the circle? (g = 10 m/s2)

A man whirls a stone of mass 250 gram, tied at the end of a string of

1.	A man whirls a stone of mass 250 gram, tied at the end of a string of length 2 m in a horizontal circle and at a height of 5 m from the ground. The string breaks and the stone flies off tangenitially and strikes the ground at a horizontal distance of 10 m from the man. What was the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of the stone, when it was moving in the circle? (g = 10 m/s2)
A.	50 m/s2
B.	25 m/s2
C.	40 m/s2
D.	30 m/s2
Answer» B. 25 m/s2