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Homework Statement
A circular disk of radius 30 cm is rotating with an angular acceleration of 1 radian/ s2. What is the tangential acceleration of a point on the rim of the disk? What is its centripetal acceleration if the angular speed is 3 rev / s?
Homework Equations
tangential acceleration = angular acceleration * radius
The Attempt at a Solution
tangential acceleration = 1 * 30 = 30 cm/sec^2
I'm not even sure I got that part right, my online reading just throws a bunch of random variables at me, and I have no idea what they're referring to. If someone could just explain the equation to me to figure out the Centripetal Acceleration, that would be great. I'm not asking you to do it, I just want to know how. I already failed at this question.