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A seconds pendulum is placed in a space laboratory orbiting around the Earth at a height 3R from the Earth's surface where R is the radius of the Earth. The time period of the pendulum will be……………

A

zero

B

`2//3s`

C

4 s

D

inifinite

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The correct Answer is:
D
In a space laboratory `g=0`. Therefore, `T=2pisqrt((l)/(g))=oo`
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