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An object experiencing uniform circular motion is accelerating. t/f

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According to Newton's second law of motion, a net force causes the acceleration of mass according to Fnet = ma. For uniform circular motion, the acceleration is centripetal acceleration: a = ac. Therefore, the magnitude of centripetal force, Fc, is F c = m a c F c = m a c .

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