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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