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Centripetal force is a force that makes a body follow a curved path: it is always directed orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the instantaneous center of curvature of the path. The term centripetal force comes from the Latin words centrum ("center") and petere ("tend towards", "aim at"), signifying that the force is directed inward toward the center of curvature of the path. Isaac Newton's description was: "A centripetal force is that by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or in any way tend, towards a point as to a center."
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What kind of forces on a falling object are balanced and the object falls with constant speed?
The forces are balanced because they are falling at a constant speed. According to Newtons first law of motion an object will keep moving unless an unbalanced or net force acts upon it. If we may step in here for the novel purpose of answering the question . . . The balanced forces on an object that is falling with constant speed are typically the force of gravity (the object's 'weight') and the equal and opposite force of air resistance.
What is the Weakest kind of intermolecular force?
The weakest of the four forces is gravity by a huge margin
What kind of intermolecular forces does CO have?
Dipole-dipole attraction and van der Waals forces.
What causes change in velocity?
If an object's velocity changes -- if its speed increases or decreases or if its direction changes -- that means it has accelerated. For an object to accelerate, the sum of the forces acting upon it must be non-zero. So, in other words, forcechanges an object's velocity.
What are the condition for an object to stay at rest to keep moving at constant velocity?
The condition for an object to stay at rest or if moving, moving at a constant velocity is that the sum of forces acting on the object be zero or that no force acts on the object.
What kind of force moves an object away (4th grade)?
The two major forces that act upon a body are centrifugal force and centripetal force. Centrifugal force causes a body to fly outwards, or moves a body away and centripetal force counteracts centrifugal force, preventing the object from flying out and keeping it moving with a constant speed, in a circular path.Search templates (CTRL+Space) New TemplateHide button
What kind of a force is centripetal force?
When a body is forced to follow a curved path and be directional to the velocity of the path it is known as a centripetal force. Simply put, centripetal force is the cause of circular motion. An example is a loop within a roller coaster that goes upside down, the centripetal force is applied to the track making the coaster travel through at speed.
What kind of motion do unbalanced forces make?
An unbalanced force produces a change in motion which means an object moves. In balanced forces, the net force is 0 and the object does not move.
What happens when an unbalanced forces act on an object that is at rest?
Then the object will move :) If you are talking about a car, and you have the brakes on, then it will be balanced because the brakes act as a balancing force.Scientifically, the only thing that makes a car move without any kind of brake on is because of unbalanced forces.
What kind of force is required when an object is moved at rest?
To move an object that is at rest, you must overcome all other forces that are acting on the object, such as friction.
Is it possible to fly with centrifugal forces?
A spinning object can throw things, which is a kind of uncontrolled flight.
What are some of the forces that act upon object in motion?
What kind of object in what kind of motion? The question is too vague to answer, and the forces depend on the properties of the object and its environment anyway. For example, there might ... or might not ... be significant electromagnetic and/or gravitational forces acting on the object (technically, any real object in the real universe WILL have electromagnetic and gravitational forces acting on it, but they may be insignificant in some cases).
Forces acting on a falling object?
Gravity: The pull of two objects on each other.Inertia: Basically something that slows any kind of acceleration or deceleration on a moving object.Yup, those two are the main forces that act on a falling object.
What changes when an unbalanced force acts upon an object?
There's no such thing as "an unbalanced force". When the entire group of forces acting on an object is unbalanced, the object accelerates, in the direction of the vector sum of the forces.
What is the difference between net force and balanced forces?
net force is a kind of force and balanced forces is another kind of force. You get it or you dont get it?
What has forces got to do with gravity?
Gravity is the cause of one important kind of force that we find everywhere.
What kind of charge does rubbing one object against another cause?
static elecrticity
