'Life of the Party'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I may have to ask you a law school question or two. You might have said this already, but where are you talking the bar?
NC...my stuff is supposed to be here May 1st, although I'm dubious as BARBRI has yet to cash my check. Now that I think of it, maybe I should check into that.
Centrifugal force is a fictitious force. From the perspective of the thing moving around the circle, it appears to exist (and for any calculations being done involving something travelling around in a circle, you generally treat it as if it does exist), but what's actually going on is the effects of the acceleration. So, like, if you're on one of those amusement park rides that spins around, you feel like there's a force pulling you out of the circle, but what's actually happening is that the ride is pulling you around the circle, while you're already in motion with velocity tangent to the circle, but since you don't really experience the "pulling around" force, only the inertia, it feels like there's a force pulling you out of the circle.
(That's a horrible explanation. This is really difficult without being able to draw stuff.)
Centrifugal force doesn't exist in the sense of a force that pulls you away, right? But it does exist in the sense of being an equal, opposite force to centripetal force, doesn't it?
Otherwise, wouldn't centripetal force have us all pinned to our couches perpetually?
So, centrifugal force is really just attempting to move straight ahead while being pulled in a circle by the centripetal force?
Otherwise, wouldn't centripetal force have us all pinned to our couches perpetually?
I thought that force was called "television".
OK, the gatorade endurance crumbling people commercials? Freak me the hell out. People pieces! Ahhhrg.
So, centrifugal force is really just attempting to move straight ahead while being pulled in a circle by the centripetal force?
Errr, yes -- I meant what Sean said.
I can't figure out why I find Anthony Lapaglia or however his name is spelled so dang appealing. Want to take him home and feed him posole. So weird.
Centrifugal force doesn't exist in the sense of a force that pulls you away, right? But it does exist in the sense of being an equal, opposite force to centripetal force, doesn't it?
Nope. If two equal and opposite forces are acting on an object, then it doesn't move at all. (Think about a rope in a tug-of-war, if the people on both sides are pulling with the same force.) When centripetal force acts on something, it does move.
So, centrifugal force is really just attempting to move straight ahead while being pulled in a circle by the centripetal force?
Right.
I'm allowed to beat the dog over the head with a heavy glass, right? Right?