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Why is there a centripetal force acting on the rear wheels of a car when cornering?
There are quite a few questions about this in the general case (i.e. what is the source of the centripetal force when cornering?) but I don't understand what the origin of this force is specifically ...
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Why does the bottommost point of a rolling body have a radial acceleration in the ground frame?
Let's say a solid cylinder of radius r is rolling on a stationary horizontal surface with linear velocity v, angular velocity $\omega$, linear acceleration a and angular acceleration $\alpha$
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Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration
In introductory physics books (or at least mine) it limits the equation $a_c=v^2/r$ to the situation where the speed around the circular path is constant. It enforces the idea that the speed is ...
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