7th Edition

ISBN: 9780321625922

Author: Douglas C. Giancoli

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

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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 for…

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Chapter 5, Problem 26P

For each of the cases described below, sketch and label the total acceleration vector, the radial acceleration vector, and the tangential acceleration vector. (a) A car is accelerating from 55 km/h to 70 km/h as it rounds a curve of constant radius. (b) A car is going a constant 65 km/h as it rounds a curve of constant radius. (c) A car slows down while rounding a curve of constant radius.

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