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Consider a train that rounds an unbanked curve with a radius of 600m at a speed of 160 km/hr. The sideways force on a train passenger of 70 kg is equal to?

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It determines the sideways force on the train passenger when the train rounds an unbanked curve.

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The sideways force is the centripetal force.
so F = mv^2/r (^2 ...

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