Circular Motion

Question 1

A police officer draws a sketch of the scene of an accident, as shown.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Y

Question 2

Which situation during a basketball game involves centripetal acceleration?

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A player spins a basketball on his finger.

Question 3

The tip of a fan blade is 0.61 m from the center of the fan. The fan turns at a constant speed and completes 2 rotations every 1.0 s.

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96 m/s2

Question 4

In which situation would a space probe most likely experience centripetal acceleration?

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as it revolves around a planet

Question 5

A car drives toward the right over the top of a hill, as shown below.

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X

Question 6

Two objects have the same center point of the circle, but are located at different positions away from the center point. Each object is moving with uniform circular motion.Which would describe the tangential speed of the objects?

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the object with the larger radius has a faster tangential speed

Question 7

Dao makes a table to identify the variables used in the equations for centripetal acceleration.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

X: periodY: tangential speed

Question 8

Which is a characteristic of centripetal acceleration?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It is directed inward, toward the center of a circle.

Question 9

0.00510.432584

Revolt · Accepted Answer

84

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