1. Centripetal Acceleration and Force

2. Discuss with your neighbor:
If you have sunglasses on your dashboard and you go around a corner, what happens to them? Why?

3. Centripetal Acceleration
When a car is going around a corner, it is changing direction and therefore is …
accelerating!
We call this centripetal acceleration
Centripetal - towards the center

4. More Centripetal Stuff
Centripetal Force
The force that makes an object accelerate and go in a circle.

5. Examples of Centripetal
Acceleration
Going around a curve
keys on a string going in a circle
Moon going around the earth
Force
Friction between tires and road
Tension in the string
Gravity between the two