Problem 5.11

Please wait for the animation to completely load.

A 5-gram coin is on a rotating turntable as shown (position is given in meters and time is given in seconds).  Restart.

1. What is the coin's acceleration during the animation?
2. Draw a free-body diagram for the coin.
3. Determine the minimum value of μ_s for this motion to occur. 

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