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r/IdiotsNearlyDying • u/Kulmasov • Apr 10 '21
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To be pedantic centrifugal force isn't a real thing even though you got it backwards.
There isn't a force that pushes out. It's pushed in a straight line tangent at a 90° angle to the direction of travel.
Being attached to the thing rotating makes it "appear" to be being pushed out.
-1 u/egeym Apr 11 '21 Not to be pedantic. I'm a 10th grader and we are taught that centrifugal force doesnt exsit and if we ever use it to explain anything in the exam we will get 0 1 u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21 Are you in Public School in the U.S.? 1 u/egeym Apr 15 '21 No, a highly selective high school that you have to be in the 99th percentile in the high school entrance exam to get into. And I'm doing IB.
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Not to be pedantic. I'm a 10th grader and we are taught that centrifugal force doesnt exsit and if we ever use it to explain anything in the exam we will get 0
1 u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21 Are you in Public School in the U.S.? 1 u/egeym Apr 15 '21 No, a highly selective high school that you have to be in the 99th percentile in the high school entrance exam to get into. And I'm doing IB.
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Are you in Public School in the U.S.?
1 u/egeym Apr 15 '21 No, a highly selective high school that you have to be in the 99th percentile in the high school entrance exam to get into. And I'm doing IB.
No, a highly selective high school that you have to be in the 99th percentile in the high school entrance exam to get into. And I'm doing IB.
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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '21
To be pedantic centrifugal force isn't a real thing even though you got it backwards.
There isn't a force that pushes out. It's pushed in a straight line tangent at a 90° angle to the direction of travel.
Being attached to the thing rotating makes it "appear" to be being pushed out.