If an object is to move on a frictionless banked curve without skidding outwards or inwards, the object is provided centripetal force to maintain it in a circular track by the component of the normal by the surface on the object directed radially inwards. There’ll be one possible speed it can move at in the circular track. If it moves at a speed greater than that, it’ll skid outwards and if it moves at a lesser speed, it’ll skid inwards.
I think if it moves at a greater speed than the value which is feasible in accordance with the value of the centripetal force then the normal won’t be able to provide enough force to overcome the object’s inertia and that is why it’ll skid outwards. Is this correct?
Why will the object skid inwards if it moves at a speed less than the only possible value it can have?
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