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If the string with a particle moving in a circular motion breaks, what happens to the tension??
 

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If the string with a particle moving in a circular motion breaks, what happens to the tension??

it just disappears, and by newtons first law the balls continues to travel in a straight line ( a tangent to the circle) from where the rope broke
 

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