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What type of acceleration does an object moving in a circular path with constant speed experience? A. It will experience centripetal acceleration. B. It will experience constant acceleration. C. It will
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What type of acceleration does an object moving in a circular path with constant speed experience?

A. It will experience centripetal acceleration.
B. It will experience constant acceleration.
C. It will experience linear acceleration.
D. It will experience free fall acceleration.

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An object moving in a circular path has centripetal acceleration. (A)

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An object moving in a circular path with constant speed experiences centripetal acceleration.

Centripetal Acceleration- “the rate of change of tangential velocity”

“The direction of the centripetal acceleration is always inwards along the radius vector of circular motion.”
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