URL Original: http://plabpc.csustan.edu/general/tutorials/CircularMotion/CentripetalAcceleration.htm
| The simulation below the position of a car which is being driven at constant speed around a bend in the road. When the car is travelling along the straight sections of the road its velocity is a constant. Hence there is no acceleration. However, when is being steered around the corner its velocity changes even though its speed is a constant. There is an acceleration directed towards the centre of the circle, called the centripetal acceleration. | |
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Click on the road to run the simulation. |
Ian Littlewood, Department of Physics