An ultracentrifuge spins a small test tube in a circle of radius 10 cm at 1000 revolutions per second. What is the centripetal acceleration of the test tube? How many standard g’s does this amount to?

An ultracentrifuge spins a small test tube in a circle of radius 10 cm at 1000 revolutions per second. What is the centripetal acceleration of the test tube? How many standard g’s does this amount to?

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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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