A car of mass 1200 kg travels at a steady dpeed of 22 m/s around a bend of radius 50 m. Find the centripetal force required?

The truck needs 11,616 N of centripetal force to bend around a radius 50 m.

From the centripetal acceleration,

Where,

- Centripetal acceleration

- velocity = 22 m/s

- radius = 50 m

Put the values,

So, the centripetal force is

Where, m is the mass = 1200 kg

So,

Therefore, the truck needs 11,616 N of  centripetal force to bend around a radius 50 m.

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Compute the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration a :

a = (22 m/s)² / (50 m) = 9.68 m/s²

Then the magnitude of the centripetal force is

F = (1200 kg) (9.68 m/s²) = 11,616 N ≈ 12,000 N

its a 5.5 n

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