The distance from the center of a Ferris wheel to a passenger seat is 6.0 m. What centripetal acceleration does a passenger experience when the wheel rotates once every 4p seconds?

a. 16.9 m/s2
c. 3.0 m/s2
b. 9.0 m/s2
d. 1.5 m/s2


D

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