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A cyclist on a circular track of radius r = 800 feet is traveling at 27 ft s^-1. His speed in the tangential direction increases at the rate of 3 ft s^-2. What is the cyclist's total acceleration?

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A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal force.

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