A fairground ride spins its occupants inside a flying saucer-shaped container. If the horizontal circular path the riders follow has a 7.91 m radius, at how many revolutions per minute are the riders subjected to a centripetal acceleration equal to that of gravity?

A fairground ride spins its occupants inside a flying saucer-shaped container. If the horizontal circular path the riders follow has a 7.91 m radius, at how many revolutions per minute are the riders subjected to a centripetal acceleration equal to that of gravity?

Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text

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Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett

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Chapter5: More Applications Of Newton’s Laws

Section5.3: Nonuniform Circular Motion

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