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Course: High school physics?>?Unit 4
Lesson 3: Centripetal forces- Introduction to centripetal force
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Identifying centripetal forces
Problem
A toy car coasts around a vertical loop of a track as shown below. Friction and air resistance are negligible. The car is touching the track.
Which set of force vectors shows all the forces on the car at the position shown?