As your bus rounds a flat curve at constant speed, a package with mass 0.900 kg , suspended from the luggage compartment of the bus by a string 50.0 cm long, is found to hang at rest relative to the bus, with the string making an angle of 30.0 รข with the vertical. In this position, the package is 55.0 m from the center of curvature of the curve.

Required:
a. What is the radial acceleration of the bus?
b. What is the radius of the curve?

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Answer:

a.[tex]5.66ms^{-2}[/tex]

b.55 m

Explanation:

We are given that

Mass ,m=0.9 kg

Length of string,l=50 cm=[tex]\frac{50}{100}=0.50 m[/tex]

1 m=100 cm

[tex]\theta=30^{\circ}[/tex]

R=55 m

a.Centripetal acceleration

[tex]a_c=gtan\theta[/tex]

[tex]a_c=9.8tan30^{\circ}[/tex]

[tex]a_c=5.66 m/s^2[/tex]

Hence, the radial acceleration of the bus=[tex]5.66m/s^2[/tex]

b. Radius of curve,R=55 m