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Homework Statement A roller-coaster car has a mass of 1200 kg when fully loaded with passengers. As the car passes over the top of a circular hill of radius 17 m, its speed is not changing. (a) At the top of the hill, what is the normal force (using the negative sign for the downward...

t= 86400 seconds V(o)tx(1/2)at 9331200 m V=0+(at) 2160m/s

actually nvm i got it, thanks for the help

its still not making sense to me, probably because i don't have the kinematics equations

[SOLVED]Forces: acceleration with a sun yacht Homework Statement Sunjamming. A “sun yacht” is a spacecraft with a large sail that is pushed by sunlight. Although such a push is tiny in everyday circumstances, it can be large enough to send the spacecraft outward from the Sun on a...

Homework Statement three blocks attatched by cords that loop over frictionless pulleys. Block B lies on frictionless table, block a hangs off the left side of the table, while block c hangs off the right side. mass a= 6kg mass b= 8kg and mass c= 10kg. When the blocks are released, what is the...

alright, so the constant speed of 3.43 m/s can be plugged in as the velocity? and I am confused on the wording "centripetal acceleration of magnitude... "

Homework Statement A carnival merry-go-round rotates about a vertical axis at a constant rate. A man standing on the edge has a constant speed of 3.43 m/s and a centripetal acceleration of magnitude 1.87 m/s2. How far is the man from the center of the merry-go-round? Homework Equations...