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What would happen to an object if the centripetal force acting on it stops?
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Picture a ball on a string being whirled about the head of an experimenter. If the string breaks, the centripetal force disappears. The ball leaves on a tangent path form its (previous) circular path. Yes, it's that simple. The string provided centripetal force, by virtue of its tensile strength, to the ball to keep that ball moving in a circle. When the string broke, there was no force left to accelerate the ball "in" and keep it moving in an arc.
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Does the centripetal force acting on an object in uniform circular motion do work on the object?
No
What is the origin of centripetal force?
Centripetal force is the resultant force acting towards the centre of orbit of an object undergoing uniform circular motion.
What is the formula to find centripetal force?
Centripetal force is always directed towards the center of the circle of motion that an object is traveling in.
Centripetal Force is that force which we apply on the object?
Centripetal force is a force that keeps an object inwards, in the case of circular motion or similar.
What is the centripetal force that causes it to move in a circle?
Centripetal force, which is the product of the mass and the centripetal acceleration.Fcp = m x acpYou can measure the acp in various ways:acp = v2 / r acp = ω2 x r
What keeps an object in centripetal motion?
The centripetal force
Why is an object in uniform motion experiencing centripetal force?
It's not. If the net force on an object is centripetal, then the object can't move uniformly.
What is a force that holds a moving object in a circular path is called the?
centripetal- Dashun Walden
The unbalenced force that causes an object to move in a circular path is called a?
centripetal force
What is the reaction force to centripetal force in a centrifuge?
The centripetal force is the force with which the centrifuge pushes some object inwards. The opposite force, of course, is the object pushing the centrifuge outwards.
What happens to the motion of an object tied with a string being whirled in absence of gravitation when the centripetal force acting on it stops and the object is still tied with the string?
the object will go in its tangential direction of that instant. centripetal force pulls the object toward its rotational axis, so if there is no force pulling it inward; inertia will make the object go in the direction it "wants to go" aka- its tangential direction
In what direction does centripetal force act on an object?
Centripetal force acts towards the center of the circle of motion.
