-True or false? 2.the resultant acceleration of aparticle in accelerated circular motion is always along the radius of the. circle and towards the center.

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P dilip_k
Nov 11, 2017

False

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In accelerated circular motion the body has got at every instant both the instantaneous centripetal acceleration #a_c# and the instantaneous tangential acceleration #a_t# orthogonal to each other as shown in figure. So their resultant (#a_r=sqrt(a_c^2+a_t^2)#) is not directed towards the center.

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