Blog 7: Genki

This weekend my friends and I had a get together.  I live along kalanialeole highway and a couple of our friends were going to run the Honolulu Marathon, so the plan was to stay over at my house and watch them running.  However, we stayed up pretty late and we were too tired to wake up.  When we woke up towards the later morning, we were pretty hungry.  Since the marathon was going on, we did not want to drive someplace, so instead we walked to Genki Sushi.  There I noticed the presence of centripetal acceleration on the track where the sushi is placed.  The track needs to turn in order to complete the circle and allow the sushi to continually circulate.  This creates centripetal force on the track.  It's track has sharp turns in it which creates large centripetal force since a lower radius yields a higher force.  However, the sushi on the track does not fly off on a tangent from the circle since its frictional force is higher than the centripetal force.  It would be pretty ridiculous for us since we sat right by the turn.