An object traveling in a circle behaves as if it is experiencing an outward force. This force, known as the centrifugal force, depends on the mass of the object, the speed of rotation, and the distance from the center.
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This is refered to as the CENTRIFUGAL force. This force is not due to something actually pushing you in that direction, but by your body's inertia trying to keep you moving in a straight line. The car is actually curving around in front of you and intercepting you in your straight line path.
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An outward-directed "fictitious force" exerted on a body when it moves azimuthally in a noninertial rotating reference frame. For example, a rider standing on a carousel feels himself "pulled" outward as the carousel spins around. ... The centrifugal force on a body of mass m is given by...
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centripetal force and centrifugal force, action-reaction force pair associated with circular motion. According to Newton's first law of motion, a moving body travels along a straight path with constant speed (i.e., has constant velocity) unless it is acted on by an outside force.
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The driver of a car on a curve is in a rotating reference frame and he could invoke a "centrifugal" force to explain why his coffee cup and the carton of eggs he has on the seat beside him tend to slide sideways.
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Centripetal force is a force that makes a body follow a curved path; it is always directed orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the instantaneous center of curvature of the path. The term ...
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We are all familiar with the effects of centrifugal force, we experience it for example every time we are in a car and take a bend - we feel a force pushing us to the outside of the curve. ... Centrifugal force is sometimes referred to as a 'fictitious' force, because it is present only for an accelerated object and does...
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name Giselle R. status educator age 20s Question - What is centrifugal force? Is it a real force? Could you give us a simple explanation and some examples of centrifugal force so that my elementary students will understand this concept?
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Centrifugal force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In everyday understanding, centrifugal force (from Latin centrum "center" and fugere "to flee") represents the effects of inertia that arise in connection with rotation and which are experienced...
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