Centripetal Acceleration

This is a series of free Physics Lessons with examples and solutions.

Introduction to centripetal acceleration (part 1)
Intuition behind what it takes to make something travel in a circle

Centripetal Acceleration (part 2)
More intuition on centripetal acceleration. A simple orbit problem.

Centripetal Acceleration (part 3)
How fast does a car need to go to complete a loop-d-loop?

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