centripetal

Examples

• All

• Now, I'm going to increase the centripetal force by tucking in my arms.

  Ice Princess (2005)

• The roller coaster relies on centripetal force to keep the cars moving along the curved track.

• Well, you don't have enough centripetal force, right?

• But I think scientists like to call it centripetal force because you need to provide a force towards the centre of a circle to make this ball go round.

• I'm rotating at the equator, and so I must have some centripetal force inward, keeping me going in a circle.

• By Newton's laws, a particle of mass m in uniform circular motion experiences a centripetal force equal to mv² / r (v is the uniform speed and r is the radius of the circle).

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• During the experiment, we observed how the centripetal motion of the planets keeps them in orbit around the sun.

• In physics class, we learned that centripetal acceleration occurs when an object moves in a circular path.

Synonyms

I

inward-moving

vscentripetal

6.3

Moving toward the center when turning or spinning

is broader, meaning inward motion toward a center or axis generally

Antonyms

D

divergent

20 6.5

Tending to become different and move apart

C

centrifugal

7 7.4

Moving away from the center, often when power or people spread outward

Compounds

C

centripetal force

1 5.4

A force that pulls a moving object toward the center of its circular path

C

centripetal acceleration

• Specialized

7.0

A change in an object's movement that makes it move toward the centre when it follows a curve

C

centripetal force

6.1

An influence that pulls different groups together around a shared goal

How Inward

centripetal

• Specialized

1 7.6

inward

43 2.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology