Matt & Hugh play with a Brick and derive Centripetal Acceleration

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Matt and Hugh play with a tennis ball and a brick. Then they do some working out to derive the formula for the centripetal force (a = v^2/r) by differentiating some vectors.

Here are the sheet of working out: http://imgur.com/a/lphOr

Dr Hugh Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.
http://www.hughhunt.co.uk/
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(Sorry the audio goes a bit out-of-phase; fixing it for this video was beyond my current skill × time, but I'll fix it next time.)

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