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Re: Problem

Would there be general agreement that "tangential acceleration" is what
we're talking about in all these cases?

Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.

Immediately following the treatment of circular motion, I always
generalized to the statement that the acceleration vector can always be
resolved into tangential and centripetal components. (Serway does this)
When time allowed, I sometimes did the projectile problem using these
components instead of horizontal/vertical components - quite instructive.

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor