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    This document contains a circular motion worksheet with 12 problems involving cars rounding curves at various speeds and radii. It asks the reader to calculate quantities like maximum speeds, tensions in strings, and centripetal forces using formulas from circular motion. The problems provide real-world examples like driving on banked highway turns or icy roads.

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    Circular Motion Worksheet 3


    1. A car with a mass of 2135 kg is rounding a curve on a level road. If the radius of curvature of the road is 52
    m and the coefficient of friction between the tires and the road is 0.70, what is the maximum speed at which the
    car can make the curve without skidding off the road?

    2. You are playing with a yo-yo with a mass of 225 g. The full length of the string is 1.2 m. You decide to see
    how slowly you can swing it in a vertical circle while keeping the string fully extended, even when the yo-yo is
    at the top of its swing.
    (a) Calculate the minimum speed at which you can swing the yo-yo while keeping it on a circular path.

    (b) At the speed that you determine in part (a), find the tension in the string when the yo-yo is at the side and at
    the bottom of its swing.

    3. A boy is twirling a 155 g ball on a 1.65 m string in a horizontal circle. The string will break if the tension
    reaches 208 N. What is the maximum speed at which the ball can move without breaking the string?

    4. An electron (mass 9.11 × 10-31 kg) orbits a hydrogen nucleus at a radius of 5.3 × 10-11 m at a speed of 2.2 ×
    106 m/s. Find the centripetal force acting on the electron. What type of force supplies the centripetal force?

    5. A stone of mass 284 g is twirled at a constant speed of 12.4 m/s in a vertical circle of radius 0.850 m. Find
    the tension in the string (a) at the top and (b) at the bottom of the revolution. (c) What is the maximum speed the
    stone can have if the string will break when the tension reaches 33.7 N?

    6. You are driving a 1654 kg car on a level road surface and start to round a curve at 77 km/h. If the radius of
    curvature is 129 m, what must be the frictional force between the tires and the road so that you can safely make
    the turn?

    7. A stunt driver for a movie needs to make a 2545 kg car begin to skid on a large, flat, parking lot surface. The
    force of friction between his tires and the concrete surface is 1.75 × 104 N and he is driving at a speed of 24 m/s.
    As he turns more and more sharply, what radius of curvature will he reach when the car just begins to skid?

    8. Canadian Indy racing car driver Paul Tracy set the speed record for time trials at the Michigan International
    Speedway (MIS) in the year 2000. Tracy averaged 378.11 km/h in the time trials. The ends of the 3 km oval
    track at MIS are banked at 18.0° and the radius of curvature is 382 m.
    (a) At what speed can the cars round the curves without needing to rely on friction to provide a centripetal
    force?

    (b) Did Tracy rely on friction for some of his required centripetal force?

    9. An engineer designed a turn on a road so that a 1225 kg car would need 4825 N of centripetal force when
    travelling around the curve at 72.5 km/h. What is the radius of curvature of the road?

    10. A car exits a highway on a ramp that is banked at 15° to the horizontal. The exit ramp has a radius of
    curvature of 65 m. If the conditions are extremely icy and the driver cannot depend on any friction to help make
    the turn, at what speed should the driver travel so that the car will not skid off the ramp?

    11. An icy curve with a radius of curvature of 175 m is banked at 12°. At what speed must a car travel to ensure
    that it does not leave the road?

    12. An engineer must design a highway curve with a radius of curvature of 155 m that can accommodate cars
    travelling at 85 km/h. At what angle should the curve be banked?

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