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An Indianapolis 500 race car takes a 350 m radius curve at 80 m/s. (a) What centripetal acceleration is needed to follow the curve? (b) How many g’s is this?

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Chapter6: Applications Of Newton's Laws

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Problem 68P: What is the ideal speed to take a 100.0-m-radius curve banked at a 20.0angle?

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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 force.

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