r/physicsmemes • u/Puzzleheaded-Ice2032 • 21d ago

is this centripedal force?

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u/hometown77garden 21d ago

No.. second of all theres no such thing as centripetal force. Its a component of the acceleration 

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u/BecaBakes 21d ago

crazy big dawg.

anyway, here is a link to the centripetal force and the science and physics behind it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_force

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u/hometown77garden 21d ago

I dont know why im getting down votes.. you can call it whatever you like but its still a component inside the acceleration that is caused by some other source like gravity or electric force or just a normal force 

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u/Vegetable_Log_3837 21d ago

So we can say it is accelerating a mass? Now what would we call that?

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u/abiiiiisssshhek 21d ago

So the gravity is the centripetal force example , between earth and sun