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Will the acceleration of a car be the same when a car travels around a sharp curve at a constant 60 km/h as when it travels around a gentle curve at the same speed? Explain.

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Will the acceleration of a car be the same when a car travels around a sharp curve at a constant 60 km/h as when it travels around a gentle curve at the same speed? Explain.

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Step 1: How to get the centripetal acceleration easily? Well, If the object is moving on some circle with radius r with constant speed v, then it will pass the way s in some period of time Δt. It can be represented with a triangle:

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