A child rides a bicycle in a circular path with a radius of 2.0 m. The tangential speed of the bicycle is 2.0 m/s. The combined mass of the bicycle and the child is 43 kg. What is the magnitude of the bicycle's centripetal acceleration?

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Answer 1 · 2017-04-23T11:44:46

The centripetal acceleration is #=2ms^-2#

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The centripetal acceleration is

#a_c=v^2/r#

The tangential speed is #v=2.0ms^-1#

The radius is #r=2.0m#

Therefore,

#a_c=2^2/2=2ms^-2#