Cut The Rope#
In the mobile app “Cut the Rope”, a mass (of candy) swings on a rope and the game player selects a point to cut the rope so it lands in a cute little monster’s mouth.
Imagine that the mass is suspended from a fixed pivot point by a massless string of length
The figure below shows the situation described above.

Part 1#
Calculate the speed of the candy right before the string is cut.
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Part 2#
After the string is cut, how long does the candy travel for?
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Part 3#
After the string is cut, how far does the candy travel in the horizontal direction?
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Attribution#
Problem is licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.