Racing drivers experience large g-forces when driving fast round corners. One racing driver is driving a car in a circular ring which is 116 m in diameter. At one instant, his total acceleration is 12.6 m/s2 with a direction of 29 relative to the tangent.
I think you have to draw a triangle and use Pythagoras to get ar and at
a) At this instant,...
i) what is the driver's radial acceleration? m/s2
ii) what is the driver's tangential acceleration? m/s2
b) Starting from the instant described above, and maintaining the same tangential acceleration, how long does it take the driver and car to complete one more complete lap? s
(Hint: first find either initial angular or linear velocity.)
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