Hungarian Adrian Anmus won the gold medal for the hammer throw at the 2004 Olympics in Athens

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Hungarian Adrian Anmus won the gold medal for the hammer throw at the 2004 Olympics in Athens with a winning distance of 83.19 meters.* The event consists of swinging a 16-pound weight attached to a wire 190 centimeters long in a circle and then releasing it. Assuming his release is at a 45° angle to the ground, the hammer will travel a distance of υ20/g meters, where g = 9.8 meters/second2 and υ0 is the linear speed of the hammer when released. At what rate (rpm) was he swinging the hammer upon release?

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Precalculus

ISBN: 978-0321716835

9th edition

Authors: Michael Sullivan

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