Centrifugal force is a force attempting to make a spinning object fly away, e.g. if a string attached to a rock that is spun, breaks.
So this is balanced by a centripetal force (a centre seeking force) that prevents it from happening.
In modern physics, centrifugal force is "deleted", and we speak in terms of centripetal force, the force preventing something from flying away. The problem with centrifugal force is that if (say) the string above breaks, the rock flies away at a tangent to the circle (a straight line). A centripetal force, on the other hand, always remains towards the centre of rotation (radial force).
So centripetal force is generated in a car rounding a bend, in a rock on a string being spun in circles, etc.
So this is balanced by a centripetal force (a centre seeking force) that prevents it from happening.
In modern physics, centrifugal force is "deleted", and we speak in terms of centripetal force, the force preventing something from flying away. The problem with centrifugal force is that if (say) the string above breaks, the rock flies away at a tangent to the circle (a straight line). A centripetal force, on the other hand, always remains towards the centre of rotation (radial force).
So centripetal force is generated in a car rounding a bend, in a rock on a string being spun in circles, etc.
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some examples of centripical force,
while doing a looping on a rollercoster or spining a rock which you have tied to a rope
it basicly is the force which pulls the object to the center of the circular motion and prevents it from flying away
while doing a looping on a rollercoster or spining a rock which you have tied to a rope
it basicly is the force which pulls the object to the center of the circular motion and prevents it from flying away