Saturday, July 25, 2015

What makes the centrifugal force a misconception of sorts?

Centrifugal force consists of two types of forces, one of
which is called a fictitious force and the other is called a reactive force. The
fictitious centrifugal force is one of the forces that are required to explain phenomena
in non-inertial reference frames in addition to the physical forces present in inertial
reference frames.


The reactive centrifugal force is due to
the inertia of a body which makes a body continue in a state where it is not
accelerated. When a force acts on a body that makes it move in a circular path, this
force is due to another body, for example the gravitational force of attraction or the
electromagnetic force of attraction between two bodies, etc. The mass on which this
force is exerted and which has to move in a circular path exerts what is called a
reactive centrifugal force on the other body.


The
characteristics of the fictitious and reactive centrifugal forces are different with the
reactive force useful in analyzing the movement of objects in a rotating reference while
the fictitious force is not.

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