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Why is acceleration directed inward when an object rotates in a circle?
Somebody (in a video about physics) said that acceleration goes in if you would rotate a ball on a rope around yourself.
The other man (ex Navy SEAL, on YouTube too) said that obviously it goes out, ...
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Angular Acceleration v. Centripetal Acceleration
What is the difference between angular acceleration and centripetal acceleration? Don't they both apply to circular motion?
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Does acceleration of the rim mean just tangential or both tangential and centripetal acceleration?
On my physics homework, the problem specifies that the acceleration of the rim of a flywheel can't exceed 100g. Does this mean that the tangential acceleration only, or the sum of the tangential and ...
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Kinematics for Non-Uniform Circular Motion
I'm trying to understand how kinematics for non-uniform circular motion. I know that you can represent the net acceleration of an object in non-uniform circular motion with the following equation:
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Noninertial frame of reference
For a car that is accelerating linearly, the non-inertial frame of reference is the driver in the car where from his reference frame, the car is stationary. It is so called stationary because the non-...
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