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A train is moving at the rate of 60 km per hour around a curve of radius 500 m and the distance between the rails is 170 cm. By how much the outer rail be raised above the inner one so that there may be no lateral thrust on the outer rails ? `( g= 9.8 ms^(-2))`

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