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Samantha drives her car of mass 800kg clockwise around a circular track of radius 60m. She completes 12 laps around the track in 4 minutes. Find Samantha's centripetal acceleration in m/s2

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Answer:

5.92 [tex]\frac{\textbf{m}}{\textbf{s}^{\textbf{2}}}[/tex]

Explanation:

       The motion of the car can be described as uniform motion in a circle. Hence, speed of the car is assumed constant.

       She completes 12 laps in 4 minutes. So each lap takes 20 seconds.

[tex]|Velocity|=\dfrac{\text{Distance}}{\text{Time taken}}=\dfrac{\text{Circumference}}{\text{Lap time}}=\dfrac{2\pi r}{T}[/tex]

       Radius of lap = [tex]r=60\text{ }m[/tex].

[tex]v=\dfrac{2\times\pi\times 60 \text{ }m}{20\text{ }sec}=6\pi \frac{m}{sec}[/tex]

Mass of car = [tex]m=800\text{ }kg[/tex]

       Centripetal acceleration = [tex]\dfrac{v^{2}}{r}=\dfrac{(6\pi\text{ }\frac{m}{sec})^{2}}{60\text{ }m}=5.92\frac{m}{s^{2}}[/tex]

∴ Centripetal Acceleration = 5.92 [tex]\frac{m}{s^{2}}[/tex]