a) The length of the arm of the centrifuge is 10.9 m
b) The angular acceleration is 
Explanation:
a)
In a uniform circular motion, the centripetal acceleration is given by

where:
is the angular speed of the circular motion
r is the radius of the circle
For the centrifuge in this problem, we have:
is the angular speed
The centripetal acceleration is 3.2 times the acceleration due to gravity (
), so:

Therefore, we can re-arrange the previous equation to find r, the radius of the circle (which corresponds to the length of the arm of the centrifuge):

b)
In the second part of the exercise, the centrifuge speeds up from an initial angular speed of 0 to a final angular speed of 1.7 rad/s. The total acceleration experienced at the final moment is

So, 4.4 times the acceleration due to gravity.
The total acceleration is the resultant of the centripetal acceleration (
) and the tangential acceleration (
):

We know that:
a = 4.4g

So, we can find the tangential acceleration:

The angular acceleration is related to the tangential acceleration by

where r = 10.9 m is the length of the centrifuge. Substituting,

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