Question

A Ferris wheel rotates 4 times each minute and has a diameter of 17 m.
The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2. What is the centripetal acceleration of a rider?
Answer in units of m/s2

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Anonymous
You are driving down the road and hit a bump which causes your fishing tackle box to bounce out of the bed of your pickup. The box decelerates at a rate of 3 m/s¶ and skids 24 meters before coming to a stop. How fast were you traveling when the box fell out?
drwls
Ashley's answer has been posted elsewhere.
Anonymous's question does not belong here.
Anonymous
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