Centrifugal force (disambiguation)

In classical mechanics, centrifugal force (from Latin centrum "center" and fugere "to flee") can mean:

• In everyday understanding, centrifugal force (from Latin centrum "center" and fugere "to flee") represents The Effects of inertia that arise in curved motion and are experienced as an outward force away from the center of curvature of the path or away from a center of rotation.
• Physics: from the viewpoint of an observer in a rotating reference frame, Centrifugal force (rotating reference frame) is an apparent force that seems to push a body away from the axis of rotation of the frame and is a consequence of the body's mass and the frame's angular rate of rotation.
• Physics: In circular motion, the reactive centrifugal force is a real force applied by the accelerating body that is equal and opposite to the centripetal force that is acting on the accelerating body.

See also

• centripetal force - the real force that acts on a body to curve its motion