1. ssm A car travels at a constant speed around a circular track whose radius is 2.6 km. The car goes once around the track in 360 s. What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of the car?

 

Centripetal acceleration is

And circular speed is

 

Plug this into centripetal acceleration and

 

 

 

 

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