Centripetal Acceleration Answers

A object spins around its own axis, while a object moves around another object.

A object spins around its own axis, while a object moves around another object.

Sasha sits on a horse on a carousel 3.5 m from the center of the circle. She makes a revolution once every 8.2 seconds. What is Sasha’s tangential speed?

A seat on a Ferris wheel moves at a constant tangential speed around the wheel. If the seat is 7 m from the center of the wheel and has a tangential speed of 0.5 m/s, what centripetal acceleration does the seat experience?

m/s2

A roller coaster car travels through a loop in 3.1 s with a centripetal acceleration of 26 m/s2. What is the radius of the roller coaster loop?

The motion of an object moving with uniform circular motion is always to the circle, so the speed of an object moving in a circle is known as speed.

The motion of an object moving with uniform circular motion is always to the circle, so the speed of an object moving in a circle is known as speed.