Hello guys,
This post is for the school students in their secondary school or high school.You must have come across these terms in your physics books.Both of them are often confusing to understand.Well I will clear confusion once and for all.Centripetal force is the force acting towards the centre for an object in circular motion.It always acts towards the centre.Centrifugal force is the force acting away from centre for an object in circular motion.Examples-
1.A stone tied to a thread when rotated has a force towards the centre which helps it to rotate.
2.Inside a washing machine clothes are whirled away from centre.This is centrifugal force.
Actualy whenever centripetal force will be there there will be centrifugal force.Now the question is if both of them occur then why centripetal force is considered real and centrifugal pseudo.This is because the motion is accelerating leading to non Newtonian frame of reference or non inertial frame of reference.Therefore centrifugal has been wrongly discriminated as pseudo or fictitious.In reality both of them occur.
Thanks...
This post is for the school students in their secondary school or high school.You must have come across these terms in your physics books.Both of them are often confusing to understand.Well I will clear confusion once and for all.Centripetal force is the force acting towards the centre for an object in circular motion.It always acts towards the centre.Centrifugal force is the force acting away from centre for an object in circular motion.Examples-
1.A stone tied to a thread when rotated has a force towards the centre which helps it to rotate.
2.Inside a washing machine clothes are whirled away from centre.This is centrifugal force.
Actualy whenever centripetal force will be there there will be centrifugal force.Now the question is if both of them occur then why centripetal force is considered real and centrifugal pseudo.This is because the motion is accelerating leading to non Newtonian frame of reference or non inertial frame of reference.Therefore centrifugal has been wrongly discriminated as pseudo or fictitious.In reality both of them occur.
Thanks...
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