NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, houses a 20g centrifuge used to conduct research and training to solve real world problems related to the effectsof acceleration on systems. It consists of a horizontal rail system with a 58-foot diameter mounted on a central axis, as shown in the figure below. An astronaut is using thecentrifuge for training on high accelerations during spaceflight. The astronaut is seated 29.0 ft from the axis of rotation. At what rotation rate, in revolutions per second, willthe astronaut experience a centripetal acceleration of 17.4g?29 ftXKKKIrev/s

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