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- A 6000 kg roller coaster goes around a loop of radius 30m at 6 m/s. What is the centripetal acceleration?
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- For the Gravitron ride above, assume it has a radius of 18 m and a centripetal acceleration of 32 m/s^2. Assume
a person is in the graviton with 180 cm height and 80 kg of mass. What is the speed it is spinning at? Note
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Answers
- 1.2 m/s^2
- 24 m/s