Ice Bucket Energy Challenge
Your challenge in this activity is to whirl a bucket of ice water in a vertical circle without having the water spill out onto your head or the string breaking when the bucket is in the lowest point of its loop.

Your job is to find the minimum and maximum energies that the system can have for these criteria

Take the zero point for potential energy gravity to be the bucket at the lowest point in the circle

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Ice Bucket Energy Challenge
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Find the maximum speed at the bottom so the rope doesn't break and the minimum spreed at the top so the water stays in the bucket
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Minimum Energy (J):
Maximum Energy (J):
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