A solar-powered car is traveling at constant speed around a circular track. what happens to the centripetal acceleration of the
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Explanation:
The acceleration due to gravity g is defined as
and solving for R, we find that
We need the mass M of the planet first and we can do that by noting that the centripetal acceleration experienced by the satellite is equal to the gravitational force
or
The orbital velocity <em>v</em> is the velocity of the satellite around the planet defined as
where <em>r</em><em> </em>is the radius of the satellite's orbit in meters and <em>T</em> is the period or the time it takes for the satellite to circle the planet in seconds. We can then rewrite Eqn(2) as
Solving for <em>M</em>, we get
Putting this expression back into Eqn(1), we get
Answer: 3.33 m/s
Explanation:
Assuming the questions is to convert 12 km/h to meter per second (m/s), let's begin:
In order to make the conversion, we have to know the following:
And:
Keeping this in mind, we can make the conversion:
Then: