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Modern wind turbines are larger than they appear, and despite their apparently lazy motion, the speed of the blades tips can be quite high—many times higher than the wind speed. A typical modern turbine has blades 56 m long that spin at 13 rpm. At the tip of a blade, what are (a) the speed and (b) the centripetal acceleration?
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