There is a designed leg shaped machine to spin astronauts in a horizontal circle with a radius of 10 m. If the astronauts are to experience 5 g centripetal acceleration, how fast should they be moving?

There is a designed leg shaped machine to spin astronauts in a horizontal circle with a radius of 10 m. If the astronauts are to experience 5 g centripetal acceleration, how fast should they be moving?

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Chapter4: Motion In Two And Three Dimensions

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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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