Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Uniform circular motion
  2: Period
  3: Interactive checkpoint: a spinning CD
  4: Centripetal acceleration
  5: Derivation: the formula for centripetal acceleration
  6: Interactive problems: racing in circles
  7: Newton's second law and centripetal forces
  8: Sample problem: banked curves
  9: Sample problem: centripetal force on a pendulum
10: Accelerating reference frames and fictitious forces
11: Artificial gravity
12: Loop-the-loop
13: Interactive checkpoint: maximum loop-the-loop radius
14: Interactive summary problem: race curves
15: Gotchas
16: Summary

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