Recent content by Aitor Bracho

I can understand that, however, the issue is that at moments when the velocity vector is strictly horizontal or strictly vertical, the radial acceleration should not affect that component of velocity and therefore would create a larger magnitude of velocity, meaning that it cannot be constant...

I've been thinking about centripetal force and its effects on motion in uniform circular motion. I've actually found it difficult to accept that velocity magnitude can ever be maintained constant. Here is why: if this is our velocity vector, v, at the top of the circle: → Then the centripetal...