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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Centripetal Acceleration



Centripetal Acceleration
Consider an object moving in a circle of radius r with constant angular velocity. The tangential speed is constant, but the direction of the tangential velocity vector changes as the object rotates.

If there was no understanding of centripetal acceleration, car manufacturers couldn't design suspensions, trucks would roll over everywhere, and we would all die horribly.