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tman
Oct19-04, 01:00 PM
A weight attached to a wire is swung in a circular path. Its speed is 12 meters/sec and it has a centripetal acceleration of 9 meters/sec2. Calculate the diameter of the circle.

__________meters
Pyrrhus
Oct19-04, 01:05 PM
Use

A_{c} = \frac{v^2}{r}
Ba
Oct19-04, 01:06 PM
The diameter is twice the radius what is the formula of centripetal acceleration.
tman
Oct20-04, 11:31 AM
got the answer