model airplane is tethered to a post and held by a fine line.It flies in a horizontal circle.Then the line breaks. -?

Question

What direction will it fly in?

a. Directly to the center of the circle.

b. In a circular path, as before

c. Directly away from the center of the circle.

d. In a straight line at a tangent.

Answer 1

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the answer is D

because without the force of the string acting on it

the plane will simply continue at whatever velocity it had at the moment of string breaking

It will no longer be accelerated into a circular motion

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