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Is this the diagram you meant? Because the acceleration of B is into the centre of rotation, does this make the acceleration negative and so when I use the equation aA/B = aa - ab this gives me the correct answer?

The Earth accelerates towards the sun which results in a centripetal force on the earth?

Is that what you mean? If not, then I'm not really sure what else it could be

The acceleration is going anticlockwise, making it negative and so ab = -2.469cosθi - 2.469sinθj ?

The m/s was a typing error, I meant m/s2 :) As A is not accelerating then using the equation aA/B = aa - ab = 0cos135i + 0sin135j -2.469cosθBi-2.469sinθBj = 0 + 0 -2.469cosθBi-2.469sinθBj =-2.469cosθBi-2.469sinθBj m/s2 Which is negative of the answer I'm trying to get? Is the acceleration...

Thank you for responding! Yeah I meant I divided by 3600 rather than 360. What happens to the acceleration of A? As it is the acceleration of A relative to B so I thought I would need to use the equation AA/B = Aa - Ab?

Homework Statement Aircraft A is flying NorthWest at 800km/h. Aircraft B is flying in a circular, anticlockwise holding pattern, radius of 5km, at 400km/h.Show that the acceleration of A relative to B is A(A/B)= 2.469cosθBi+2.469sinθBj m/s2 Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I know...