2. In order to land at an airport, an airplane completes a turn in the sky at a 90 degree
angle with a radius of 7,510 meters. The plane is flying at 165 m/s.
a. What is the centripetal acceleration that the passengers on the plane
experience?
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b. If the airplane has 400 liters of fuel remaining, before making the turn, will
the plane have enough fuel to make the turn? On average, airplanes use
approximately 12 liters of fuel/kilometer?