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centripetal force

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centripetal force

Force that acts radially inwards on an object moving in a curved path. For example, with a weight whirled in a circle at the end of a length of string, the centripetal force is the tension in the string. For an object of mass m moving with a velocity v in a circle of radius r, the centripetal force F equals mv2/r (inwards).
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Under the centripetal force, the base of the projectile tended toward the moon; but the centrifugal still prevailed; and it was probable that its rectilineal course would be changed to a curve of some sort, the nature of which they could not at present determine.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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