Physics of Everyday Phenomena
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 1E
A ball is traveling at a constant speed of 4 m/s in a circle with a radius of 0.8 m. What is the centripetal acceleration of the ball?
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