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Classical Mechanics Level 2

Centrifugal force acts on a particle because the particle goes on a circle.

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Akshat Sharda
Jan 19, 2018

Centrifugal force arise from the body's inertia, which appears to act on a body moving in a circular path and is directed away from the centre around which the body is moving.

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It is a common misconception that centrifugal force acts on a particle because the particle goes on a circle. Centrifugal force acts (or is assumed to act) because we describe the particle from a rotating frame, which is non-inertial and still uses Newton's laws.

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