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In a carnival ride, passengers stand with their backs against the wall of a cylinder. The cylinder is set into rotation and the floor is lowered away from the passengers, but they remain stuck against the wall of the cylinder. For a cylinder with a 2.0-m radius, what is the minimum speed that the passengers can have for this to happen if the coefficient of static friction between the passengers and the wall is 0.25?
A) 8.9 m/s
B) 2.3 m/s
C) 3.0 m/s
D) 4.9 m/s
E) It depends on the mass of the passengers.
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