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Parameters of Uniform Circular Motion

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This Demonstration considers a particle undergoing uniform circular motion. Assume a rotation period of 1 second and a radius of 1 meter. Use the "time" slider to move the particle around its circular orbit and the "radius" slider to set the radius of the orbit.

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The first three boxes give the particle's position , velocity and acceleration .

Check the box "local frame" for the components of the particle's velocity and acceleration.

In the table, , and represent the magnitudes of the vectors , and , respectively; is the circumference of the orbit; is the orbital period; and is the angular frequency in rad/s. The expression equals the magnitude of , the centripetal acceleration.

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Contributed by: Whasington Silvestre (January 2023)
(Murray State University, Austin Peay State University, University of Puerto Rico, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo)

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