A small bead of mass is given an initial velocity of magnitude on a horizontal circular track of radius . If the coefficient of of kinetic friction is , what is the distance covered by the bead before coming to rest?
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The working differential equation is m v d s d v = − μ k ( m g ) 2 + ( R m v 2 ) 2 which can be directly solved to get the answer.