The aorta is a major artery, rising upward from the left ventricle of the heart and curving down to carry blood to the abdomen and lower half of the body. The curved artery can be approximated as a semicircular arch whose diameter is 4.0 cm. If blood flows through the aortic arch at a speed of 0.33 m/s, what is the magnitude (in m/s2) of the blood's centripetal acceleration?
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The aorta is a major artery, rising upward from the left ventricle of the heart and...
In the human body, the aorta is the major artery that conducts blood from the heart to the rest of the body. The abdominal aorta is a relatively long straight section of the aorta that runs down from the chest to the pelvis. This section is prone to aneurisms, where a section of the aorta fails and stretches. In order to study how wall shear from blood flow in this portion of the aorta may contribute to aneurisms, a laboratory...