Physics of Everyday Phenomena
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 8E
A Ferris wheel at a carnival has a radius of 8 m and turns so that the speed of the riders is 4.5 m/s.
- a. What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of the riders?
- b. What is the magnitude of the net force required to produce this centripetal acceleration for a rider with a mass of 75 kg?
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