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The distance from the center of a Ferris wheel to a passenger seat is 6.0 m. What centripetal acceleration does a passenger experience when the wheel rotates once every 4p seconds?
 a. 16.9 m/s2
  c. 3.0 m/s2
  b. 9.0 m/s2
  d. 1.5 m/s2

Question 2

A point on the rim of a 0.25-m radius fan blade has centripetal acceleration of 0.20 m/s2 . Find the centripetal acceleration of a point 0.1 m from the center of the same wheel.
 a. 0.01 m/s2
  c. 0.04 m/s2
  b. 0.02 m/s2
  d. 0.08 m/s2


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Jsherida

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Reply #1 on: Jul 28, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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