alynne08 Messages 1 Reaction score 0 Thread starter Jan 14, 2008 #1 Is it possible to drive your car so as to have a nonzero centripetal acceleration while your tangential acceleration is zero?
Is it possible to drive your car so as to have a nonzero centripetal acceleration while your tangential acceleration is zero?
mgb_phys Science Advisor Homework Helper Messages 7,906 Reaction score 15 Jan 14, 2008 #2 You mean like at a constant speed around a constant radius banked circuit? edit. You posted this in a homework forum, if this is homework you really have to try and answer it yourself as in the guidelines that should have appeared when you posted.
You mean like at a constant speed around a constant radius banked circuit? edit. You posted this in a homework forum, if this is homework you really have to try and answer it yourself as in the guidelines that should have appeared when you posted.