Consider a wheel rotating around a fixed axis. If the rotation angle
varies with time as
, then the total acceleration of a point
on the rim of the wheel is (
being the tangential velocity)
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A
So, tangential linear acceleration of particle is

Also, normal or radial acceleration of particle is

Total acceleration of particle is

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