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The centripetal acceleration is what keeps the object moving in a
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centripetal acceleration was instantaneously reduced to zero?
The object would move in the direction of the velocity at the instant the
acceleration was reduced to zero. This would result in a straight line path
that is tangent to the circular path at that instant.
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Centripetal acceleration
Centripetal acceleration is
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