Suppose you have a spool of thread that can rotate around a fixed axis as you pull thread off it. If you pull the thread with your hand so that the thread always lies along a certain fixed line, how will your hand’s speed as it moves compare to
, where R is the spool’s radius and
is angular speed?
A. The hand’s speed will be greater than .
B. The hand’s speed will be less than .
C. The hand’s speed will be equal to .
D. The hand’s speed has nothing to do with .
C. The hand’s speed will be equal to .
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