A student is doing a physics experiment with a pendulum, with a 2.8kg bob, in the car ride home from school. At one point during the ride the car is increasing speed at a rate of 4.8m/s2. Assume the windows are rolled up.
How many forces are acting on the bob of the pendulum?
What is the magnitude of the net force?
What is the strength of the tension?
At what angle, θ, does the pendulum hold?