Centrifugal Force
Whereas the centripetal force is seen as a force which must be applied
by an external agent to force an object to move in a curved path, the centrifugal and coriolis forces are "effective forces" which are invoked to explain the behavior of objects from a frame of
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The driver of a car on a curve is in a rotating A person in a hovering helicopter above the car could describe the movement of the cup and the egg carton as just going straight while the car travels in a curved path. It is similar to the "broken string" example.
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The centrifugal force is a useful concept when the most convenient
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