Question

Compare the acceleration of a car travelling around a sharp curve at 60 km/h to the acceleration of the same car travelling around a gentle curve at the same speed.

Answer 1

The centripetal acceleration of the car doing gentle curve is less than its counterpart of a sharp curve.

Step-by-step explanation:

A sharp curve would have a lower curvature radius than a gentle curve:

Since the formula for the centripetal acceleration is

`a = (v^2)/(r)` with r in the denominator.

if the velocity is the same, and the gentle curve has larger radius, then the centripetal acceleration of the car doing gentle curve must be less than its counterpart of a sharp curve.