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At what angular velocity would the earth have to rotate so that bodies at the equator became weightless? The density of the earth is `5600 kg metre ^-3` and the universal gravitational constant is `6.67xx10^-11Nm^2kg^-2`

A

`1.25xx10^-3`

B

`1.5xx10^-3`

C

1.56

D

0.125

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