An airplane flies in a horizontal circle of radius 500 m at a speed of 150 m/s. If the plane were to fly in the same 500 m circle at a speed of 300 m/s, by what factor would its centripetal acceleration change?

a. 0.25
b. 0.50
c. 1.00
d. 2.00
e. 4.00


e

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