Centripetal acceleration - Practical application
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A car is traveling on a horizontal circular track or radius equal to 22 meters. If the coefficient of static friction is 0.951, what is the maximum speed that the car can take without skidding?
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We have a case of centripetal motion, thus the velocity can be found from v2 = a r where a is the acceleration and r is the radius of the circular path. See the figure.
We can calculate the acceleration from Newton's law of motion. F = m a. The various forces ...
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