Question

A 35 kg child moves with uniform circular motion while riding a horse on a carousel. The horse is 3.2 m from the carousel's axis of rotation and has a tangential speed of 2.6 m/s.
What is the child's centripetal acceleration?

Answer 1

A=ω²r=0.8²*3.2=2.0 m/s²
v=ωr, then ω=v/r;
ω=2.6/3.2=0.8 rad/s

Answer 2

The answer is 74 N on edge.