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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. 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 .

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    This centripetal acceleration is provided by a centripetal force, which is exerted on the body in curved motion by some other body. In accordance with Newton's third law of motion , the body in curved motion exerts an equal and opposite force on the other body.

  7. Centripetal acceleration - Wikipedia

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  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. Proper acceleration - Wikipedia

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    From the spin frame perspective the stone may be said to experience balanced inward centripetal (T) and outward centrifugal (mv 2 /r) forces, which result in no acceleration at all from the perspective of that frame. Unlike the centripetal force, the frame-dependent centrifugal force acts on every bit of the circling stone much as gravity acts ...