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Exercise 7

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(a) What is the angular speed, in units of degrees per second, of the second hand, 
minute hand, and hour hand of a standard 12-hour clock?

(b) If that clock is about a foot in diameter, and its hour hand is 10 cm long, 
what is the linear speed of the tip of the hour hand?