Centripetal acceleration (3-17)

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$\textbf{Centripetal acceleration}$ : Magnitude of the acceleration of an object in uniform circular motion

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$\textbf{Speed}$ of an object as it moves around the circle

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$\textbf{Radius}$ of the circle

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Review

As we learned in Section 3-8, an object that travels at constant speed $v$ around a circular path of radius $r$ —that is, an object in $\textit{uniform circular motion}$ —has an acceleration toward the center of the circle of magnitude: