An inter-city in Germany has a scheduled average speed of 216km/h. If the train

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An inter-city in Germany has a scheduled average speed of 216km/h. If the train goe around acurve at that speed and themagnitude of the acceleration experienced by the passenger is to belimited to 5% of the gravitaional acceleration, what is the smallest radiusof curvature for the track that can be tolerated? I want to how to solve this problem. An inter-city in Germany has a scheduled average speed of 216km/h. If the train goe around acurve at that speed and themagnitude of the acceleration experienced by the passenger is to belimited to 5% of the gravitaional acceleration, what is the smallest radiusof curvature for the track that can be tolerated? I want to how to solve this problem.

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Centripetal acceleration = v2 / R = .05 g R = v2 / (.05 g)   v = 2.16 * 10E5 m / hr / 3600 sec / hr = 60 m sec Substitute for v and g and solve

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