Sunnie said:Consider a planet of radius 5.53 106 m with a rotation period of 24.3 hours. Compute the radial acceleration of a point on the surface of the planet at the equator due to its rotation about its axis.
What is the Radial Acceleration.
the formula I have is (4Pi^2R/T^2)
The radial acceleration is a measure of the rate at which an object changes its direction while moving in a circular path.
Radial acceleration and tangential acceleration are two components of the total acceleration of an object moving in a circular path. Radial acceleration refers to the change in direction, while tangential acceleration refers to the change in speed.
The formula for radial acceleration is a = v^2/r, where "a" is the radial acceleration, "v" is the tangential velocity, and "r" is the radius of the circular path.
The unit of measurement for radial acceleration is meters per second squared (m/s^2).
Radial acceleration and centripetal acceleration are mathematically equivalent. Centripetal acceleration is the net acceleration towards the center of a circular path, while radial acceleration is the component of that acceleration in a direction perpendicular to the tangential velocity.