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20 July, 18:41

A spider twirls a fruit fly around in a circle with radius 17.6 cm at the end of a web. If the velocity of the fly is 110 cm/s, what is the centripetal acceleration of the fly? m/s2.

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  1. 20 July, 20:50
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    Centripetal acceleration is the rate of change of tangential velocity

    Give: Radius r = 17.6 cm; Velocity V = 110 cm/s

    Formula: Centripetal acceleration ac = V²/r

    ac = (110 cm/s) ²/17.6 cm

    ac = 687.5 cm/s²
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