Roller Coaster and Circular Motion
A roller-coaster car has a mass of 500 kg when fully loaded with passengers, as shown below.
- If the car has a speed of 20.0 m/s at point A, what is the
force exerted by the track at this
point?
- What is the maximum speed the car can have at point B and stay on the track?
Serway & Beichner, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed., (Saunders College Publishing, 2000), p. 174