Vehicle A travels west at high speed on a perfectly straight road B which is tangent to the surface of the earth at the equator. The road has no curvature whatsoever in the vertical plane. Determine the necessary speed v_rel of the vehicle relative to the road which will give rise to zero acceleration of the vehicle in the vertical direction. Assume that the center of the earth has no acceleration.

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B- Vrel R N