The magnitude of the resultant force is given by the centripetal force, since the car is under a circular motion. So, we have:
The centripetal acceleration is given by:
Where v is the linear speed and r the radius of the circular motion. Replacing this and solving:
The linear speed of the ladybug is 4.1 m/s
Explanation:
First of all, we need to find the angular speed of the lady bug. This is given by:
where
T is the period of revolution
The period of revolution is the time taken by the ladybug to complete one revolution: in this case, since it does 1 revolution every second, the period is 1 second:
T = 1 s
Therefore, the angular speed is
Now we can find the linear speed of the ladybug, which is given by
where:
is the angular speed
r = 65.0 cm = 0.65 m is the distance of the ladybug from the axis of rotation
Substituting, we find
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