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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