Main Table of Contents

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

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