Centrifugal force? Centipetal force?

Question

Well, today, while I was doing my homework, and I came to 2 questions about centrifugal and centipetal force, and I looked all over my textbook for it, but didn't seem to find it.
I will really appreciate it if you helped me.
Here are the questions-
What is an centrifugal force, and examples of it?
What is a centipetal force, and examplesof it?

Answer 1

Centrifugal force is a force that involves spinning movement. A good example is a Tilt-a-Whirl ride at a carnival. If you sit in the ride and it spins around it forces your body into the back of the seat. This is centrifugal force. It is a force while spinning it pushes you to the outside. Another example is a washing machine on spin cycle. It spin really fast and the clothes end up on the walls of the tub. This is a centrifuge that helps ring the water out of your clothes. Centipetal force is the opposite of centrifugal force. Instead of forcing you to the outside of the center it brings you in toward the center. I imagine a bath tub drain or a black hole would be an example of this. It is a force that sucks you into the center. I hope this helps. Take care.

Answer 2

A "centrifugal force" would be a force that acts directly away from the center. There are some details, but basically there is no such thing as centrifugal force. What most people think of as centrifugal force is really an artifact of inertia.

A "centripetal force" is a force that acts towards the center. Any object which is moving in something other than a straight line - anything which is curving, in other words - is experiencing a centripetal force. If you put a stone on a string and swing it around your head, the string is exerting a centripetal force on the stone. The Moon is orbiting the Earth - the Earth's gravitational field is exerting a centripetal force on the Moon. A car is going around a turn - friction from the road is exerting a centripetal force on the tires of the car.

Answer 3

Centipetal force is force that is directed towards the center of rotation.
Centrifugal force is not a real force and is a manifestation of an object's inertia. It seems like the centrifugal force is directed outward away from the center of rotation.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

tie a weight to the end of a rope. Now swing the rope around in a circle. the force that pulls the weight away from you is centrifugal force. The force applied by the rope that keeps it in place is centipetal force.

Answer 6

CENTRIPETAL FORCE AND CENTRIFUGAL FORCE [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 . For circular motion to occur there must be a constant force acting on a body, pushing it toward the center of the circular path. This force is the centripetal ( "center-seeking" ) force. For a planet orbiting the sun, the force is gravitational; for an object twirled on a string, the force is mechanical; for an electron orbiting an atom, it is electrical. The magnitude F of the centripetal force is equal to the mass m of the body times its velocity squared v   2 divided by the radius r of its path: F = mv2 / r. According to Newton's third law of motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The centripetal force, the action, is balanced by a reaction force, the centrifugal ( "center-fleeing" ) force. The two forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. The centrifugal force does not act on the body in motion; the only force acting on the body in motion is the centripetal force. The centrifugal force acts on the source of the centripetal force to displace it radially from the center of the path. Thus, in twirling a mass on a string, the centripetal force transmitted by the string pulls in on the mass to keep it in its circular path, while the centrifugal force transmitted by the string pulls outward on its point of attachment at the center of the path. The centrifugal force is often mistakenly thought to cause a body to fly out of its circular path when it is released; rather, it is the removal of the centripetal force that allows the body to travel in a straight line as required by Newton's first law. If there were in fact a force acting to force the body out of its circular path, its path when released would not be the straight tangential course that is always observed.

Answer 7

centripetal "force" doesn't actually exist. Its the feeling you get that you are "being pushed" to the outside of a car when its making a turn too fast. You think you are feeling something pushing you to the outside of the car. In fact what is really happening is centrifugal force is being applied on the tires of the car, and is being translated to the car itself. your body is still trying to stay moving in a straight line (aka no force) but that mean the car will slide out from underneath you, so you force yourself to push into the turn.

Answer 8

centrifugal force does not exist, its only inertia, and
centripetal force is force at an angle sort of, its hard to describe, an example of it is swinging a ball on the end of a string or a merry-go-round when the horse holds the child on, the centripetal is applied by the horse, the inertia is the boys momentum which wants to throw him off the merry-go-round

centripetal force points at the center, the inertia points at a right angle of that

Answer 9

centripetal force - pulls all points on a circle toward the center (like on a loop in a rollercoaster?)

all i can remember about centrifugal force is its a fake force. it is just the inertia of the person on the circle (where the person wants to continue in a straight line.)

Answer 10

Fugo means to flee, so it a force that makes something attempt to fly outward from the center. An example is when you fill a pail with water and swing it round and round, the water stays in the bucket.

Peto means to seek, so centripetal force seeks to approach its center. This is like gravity which keeps the moon or satellites from flying away into outer space.