NOUN
- the acceleration toward the center that holds a satellite in elliptical orbit
How To Use centripetal acceleration In A Sentence
- I'm going to make a connection between centripetal acceleration and perceived gravity The way that you perceive gravity.
- The competing forces of gravity at the lower end and outward centripetal acceleration at the farther end keep the cable under tension.
- The competing forces of gravity at the lower end and outward centripetal acceleration at the farther end keep the cable under tension.
- The centripetal acceleration of this system rapidly became very high.
- Do not confuse ever the tangential acceleration, which is along the circumference, with a centripetal acceleration.
- So what I did was I plotted this data, the centripetal acceleration versus the mean distance to the sun and I did that on log paper.
- This is how fast the Earth would need to rotate to get centripetal acceleration at the equator equal to 9.81 m/s.
- The centripetal acceleration of this system rapidly became very high.
- So if you are 100 times further away like Pluto compared to Mercury then the gravitational... the centripetal acceleration which is due to gravity is 10,000 times smaller.
- So what I did was I plotted this data, the centripetal acceleration versus the mean distance to the sun and I did that on log paper.
