Centripetal and centrifugal forces are central to circular motion, but they're not the same. Discover the differences between ...

We are talking about Centrifugal and Centripetal forces using a tornado as an example. Centripetal force is a force that keeps an object moving in a circular path, this force points TOWARDthe center ...

A couple of commenters expressed concern over the use of centrifugal force after my rant on the use of the word force. So, what is the deal with these two terms? Are they ok to use? Are they real ...

If a body rotates around an axis other than the one at its own center of mass, it exerts an outward force upon anything that keeps it from going in a straight line. This is the definition ...

In this post, I am going to talk about real and not-real forces, like the fake centrifugal force. (If you don't like the word fake you could replace that with fictitious.) First, an example: Suppose ...

There is a lot of old, weird tech out there, but this 1965 patent is for something particularly weird: an "apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force." Developed by New York ...

The world's largest-capacity centrifuge — the first of three main centrifuges housed inside the Centrifugal Hypergravity and ...

China successfully debuted a powerful centrifuge that could support scientific pursuits across a variety of fields.