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Points to the centre or not?

Exercise and reference answers

Left
To the centre
Items
  1. Item
    Centripetal acc
    Answer
    To the centre
  2. Item
    Centripetal force
    Answer
    To the centre
  3. Item
    Velocity
    Answer
    Along the path
  4. Item
    String tension
    Answer
    To the centre
  5. Item
    Arc length
    Answer
    Along the path
  6. Item
    Travel direction
    Answer
    Along the path
  7. Item
    Earth pull on Moon
    Answer
    To the centre
  8. Item
    Tangent line
    Answer
    Along the path
Right
Along the path
Instructions
Swipe each quantity to the direction it actually points.

Explanation

_Source: OpenStax College Physics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 "Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation", section 6.2 Centripetal Acceleration_
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