Conical pendulum: A pendulum that swings in a horizontal circle, with the string tracing a cone.
How to apply it: Resolve the tension into components to find the centripetal force and relate it to the angular speed.
Course: AP Physics 1 · Unit: Circular Motion and Gravitation
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