Question

A stone is tied to a 0.85-meter cord. It is swung in a circle at a constant rate of 6.0 m/s. What is the centripetal acceleration of the stone?

Answer 1

Hello @connorjameseverett

give me a minute to read your question and figure this out ^_^

Answer 2

Ok, so we can think about this this way:

acceleration has the units: m / s^2
\(\huge \frac{meters}{second^2}\)

Answer 3

We are given values of 0.85 meters
and 6.0 m/s

by just fiddling with the units:
\(\huge \frac{\frac{m}{s}*\frac{m}{s}}{m}=\frac{\frac{m^2}{s^2}}{m} = \frac{m}{s^2}\)

Answer 4

so we should do
\(\huge \frac{6*6}{0.85}=?\)

Answer 5

thank you but i figured it out but thank you for helping