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A spider of mass ms drapes a silk thread of negligible mass over a stick with its far end a distance h off the ground, as shown in Fig. 4.26. A drop of dew lubricates the stick, making friction negligible. The spider waits on the ground until a fly of mass mf (mf > ms) lands on the other end of the silk and sticks to it. The spider immediately begins to climb her end of the silk, (a) With what acceleration must she climb to keep the fly from falling? If she climbs with acceleration as, at what height y will she encounter the fly?
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