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Homework Statement
Snoopy is flying his vintage warplane in a "loop de loop" path being chased by the Red Baron. His instruments tell him the plane is level (at the bottom of the loop) and traveling at 180 km/hr. He is sitting on a set of bathroom scales that him he weighs four times what he normally does. What is the radius of the loop in meters?
Homework Equations
Fc=mv2/R
ac=v2/R
The Attempt at a Solution
I am completely lost with this problem but this is what I attempted...
I started by converting 180km/hr into m/s and came up with 648 000 000m/s.
Then I used this value and plugged it into the centripetal acceleration equation and used ac=9.8m/s2 and then solved for R= 4.28*1016m
I know this must be the wrong answer but I am very lost as to what I should do or even how I should be looking at this problem... If anyone could help me out that would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much in advance!