An airplane flies in a horizontal circle of radius 500 m at a speed of 150 m/s. If the plane were to fly in the same 1000 m circle at a speed of 300 m/s, by what factor would its centripetal acceleration change?

An airplane flies in a horizontal circle of radius 500 m at a speed of 150 m/s. If the plane were to fly in the same 1000 m circle at a speed of 300 m/s, by what factor would its centripetal acceleration change?

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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.

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An airplane flies in a horizontal circle of radius 500 m at a speed of 150 m/s. If the plane were to fly in the same 1000 m circle at a
speed of 300 m/s, by what factor would its centripetal acceleration change?
(A) 2.00
B) 0.50
0.25
D) 4.00
(E) 1.00

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