A fairground ride spins its occupants inside a flying saucer-shaped container. If the horizontal circular path the riders follow has a 4.33 m radius, if the riders is subjected to a centripetal acceleration 3.5 times that due to gravity, what is the spinning speed in unit of revolutions per minute? Use g = 9.8 m

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Centripetal Force

A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal force.