Why is the road banked at a curve, and what does the angle of banking depend on?
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Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Velocity is a vector, so it changes if either its magnitude or its direction changes. In uniform circular motion the direction of the velocity changes at every instant even though its magnitude does not, so the velocity is changing and the body is accelerating. The acceleration is directed towards the centre.
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The force producing it is the centripetal force, of magnitude mv2/r.
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