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The change in angular velocity divided by time.Also equal to a/r

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The angular acceleration of the body in terms of the angular velocity is,


\alpha=\frac{\text{angular velocity}}{\text{time}}

The angular velocity in terms of the linear velocity is,


\text{angular velocity=}(v)/(r)

where v is the linear velocity and r is the radius,

Thus, the angular acceleration becomes,


\begin{gathered} \alpha=(1)/(r)*(v)/(t) \\ \alpha=(a)/(r) \end{gathered}

where a is the linear acceleration of the body,

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