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Increasing the size of the circle would _ the centripetal acceleration.

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If you are keeping the speed constant and increasing the radius then the centripetal acceleration would decrease. An example of this would be driving a curve with an increasing radius (a spiral) at a constant speed. To understand why to remember that acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.

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