Circular Orbit - Circular Acceleration

Circular Acceleration

Transverse acceleration (perpendicular to velocity) causes change in direction. If it is constant in magnitude and changing in direction with the velocity, we get a circular motion. For this centripetal acceleration we have

where:

  • is orbital velocity of orbiting body,
  • is radius of the circle
  • is angular speed, measured in radians per second.

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