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  2. Centripetal force - Wikipedia

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    A centripetal force (from Latin centrum, "center" and petere, "to seek" [1]) is a force that makes a body follow a curved path.The direction of the centripetal force is always orthogonal to the motion of the body and towards the fixed point of the instantaneous center of curvature of the path.

  3. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    are called the tangential acceleration and the normal or radial acceleration (or centripetal acceleration in circular motion, see also circular motion and centripetal force), respectively. Geometrical analysis of three-dimensional space curves, which explains tangent, (principal) normal and binormal, is described by the Frenet–Serret formulas ...

  4. Angular acceleration - Wikipedia

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    In physics, angular acceleration (symbol α, alpha) is the time rate of change of angular velocity.Following the two types of angular velocity, spin angular velocity and orbital angular velocity, the respective types of angular acceleration are: spin angular acceleration, involving a rigid body about an axis of rotation intersecting the body's centroid; and orbital angular acceleration ...

  5. Centripetal acceleration - Wikipedia

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  6. Proper acceleration - Wikipedia

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    Forces on the stone include the inward centripetal (red) force seen in both frames, as well as the geometric (blue) force seen in the spin frame. Before the stone is released, the blue geometric force is purely centrifugal (pointing radially outward), while after release the geometric force is a sum of centrifugal and Coriolis components.

  7. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    This acceleration is known as centripetal acceleration. For a path of radius r , when an angle θ is swept out, the distance traveled on the periphery of the orbit is s = rθ . Therefore, the speed of travel around the orbit is v = r d θ d t = r ω , {\displaystyle v=r{\frac {d\theta }{dt}}=r\omega ,} where the angular rate of rotation is ω .

  8. Cisco defeats Centripetal patent case that led to $2.75 ... - AOL

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    A different judge in the same court, U.S. District Judge Henry Morgan, had awarded Centripetal $2.75 billion in the case in 2020, marking the largest patent damages award in U.S. history.

  9. History of centrifugal and centripetal forces - Wikipedia

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    Newton coined the term "centripetal force" (vis centripeta) in his discussions of gravity in his De motu corporum in gyrum, a 1684 manuscript which he sent to Edmond Halley. [ 4 ] Gottfried Leibniz as part of his " solar vortex theory " conceived of centrifugal force as a real outward force which is induced by the circulation of the body upon ...