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📅 NSB Round Robin 2020🎓 HS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Question 2🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Nick is sitting in a car that has a tennis ball hanging from a string attached to the ceiling. As the car accelerates forward at two meters per second squared, he observes the ball appear to be pulled toward the back of the car. Relative to the horizontal, what is the absolute value of the tangent of the angle the string makes to the ceiling?

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