Normal Reaction in A Banked Turn
In the case of a car being parked on a banked turn, the normal force would simply be:
But once the car starts to move on a banked turn, it "collides" with the turn itself, the turn feels this force, and returns it in the normal, causing the car to move circularly.
The normal is thus greater than simply its gravitational component.
If the normal were simply the component to gravity, one could not say when the vertical acceleration is 0.
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