Centrifugal force is the apparent force that pushes things away from the center of a spinning object. It makes objects feel like they are being pushed outwards when they are actually just moving in a curved path due to the object's rotation.
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In 1958 ground controllers tracking the first American satellite, Explorer 1, noted that its path faithfully traced the planet's equatorial bulge (created
by centrifugal forces generated by the planet's rotation).
cap plies Designed to counter the extreme
centrifugal forces of a tire moving at 1,000 rpm, the cap plies are made of two layers of nylon.
Though completely nonrepresentational, her works are borne out of her interest in
centrifugal forces in portraits.
Given the increased
centrifugal force created by the high speeds around curves, it is also advisable to increase the height of embankments around curves and widen the track gauge to prevent derailments.
The vortex engine has the same thermodynamic basis as the proven solar chimney except the physical tube of the solar chimney is replaced
with centrifugal force.
The effect is similar to what happens when a ball of dough is spun into a pizza crust —
centrifugal force pushes material at the poles out to the equator.
Sandia's SpinDx device features centrifugal microfluidics, or «lab - on - a-disk» technology, which
uses centrifugal forces to manipulate samples and reagents through microfluidic channels implanted on disks that are of the same size as a standard CD or DVD.
The second popular explanation describes it as a consequence of «rotational disruption», a process of launching dust and fragments by spinning so fast, the large
centrifugal forces produced exceed the object's own gravity, causing it to break apart.
A space elevator is a theoretical structure that reaches from the Earth's surface into space, balanced by its own mass and the
outward centrifugal force from the spinning Earth.
Recent Exhibitions include Two Histories of the World at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Trading Paper at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, Kansas City, MO; What Remains at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN;
Centrifugal Force at Detroit Industrial Projects, Detroit, MI; and With What We Can Carry at the Annex Art Center, Toronto, Canada.
This suspension is compliant to some degree, allowing the vehicle body, which sits upon the suspension, to lean in the direction of the perceived
centrifugal force acting upon the car.
Then the cucumber seedlings were either i) maintained in microgravity or ii) gravi - stimulated by applying a 1g
centrifugal force for a further two hours.
Proponents of the space elevator concept point out that the same physics would apply: The pull of gravity on an elevator cable would be offset by Earth's
centrifugal force holding it up.
The tools referenced generally use the closed grip and create
extreme centrifugal force that require you to hold on tight because someone or something in your area might get damaged.
Featuring the brand's new Radial Cyclone technology that generates
high centrifugal forces to isolate and capture dust, microscopic allergens, spores and bacteria, the DC63's slurps up fur and kibble crumbs within seconds.
A convincing response to
such centrifugal forces would be to rethink federalism by marrying it with sovereignty at the European level.
You can blame re-districting and party primary races for
encouraging centrifugal forces rather than creating incentives to converge toward the political centre.
The Chinese Communist party is terrified that a rebel province like Taiwan can set in
motion centrifugal forces that the Party will be unable to control.
In the face of such powerful and deeply
rooted centrifugal forces, we could do worse than to relearn the lessons of Emma's hand.
As such, there are very strong
political centrifugal forces; which have succeeded in breaking the empire apart before (in 1917, and in 1991).
A rotating star, in fact, can support a mass larger than if it was nonrotating, simply because the
additional centrifugal force can help balance the gravitational force.
When the fuel reaches the disk,
centrifugal force flings it out to the perimeter and forces it into the engines» combustion chambers.
Adhering to Einstein's «tea leaf paradox,» the red blood cells collected at the center of the container's bottom because of friction that
minimized centrifugal force.
While the glass was cooling and solidifying, he would spin the mold so that
centrifugal force gave it a ready - made curved surface.
Holding the consortia together is going to be tough sledding, as there are
multiple centrifugal forces that will try to pull them apart: disagreements over cut scores, new political leadership in the states, possible cost overruns, problems with technology, and, probably most powerful of all, inertia — the fact that states have generally run their own standards - and - assessments regimes without much external meddling....
Often, these ideas are amalgamated in his extraordinary bronze sculptures — as if a
magnetic centrifugal force has pulled together busts of Thatcher, policeman's helmets, Britannia, galleons and other maritime bric - a-brac.
Mitchell's jagged compositions of this period
project centrifugal forces, barely contained by the painting plane, whereas Gedney's use of pulsating thick color with painterly drawings of pure black — sometimes forcefully, sometimes suggestively, and sometimes architecturally, like an expressionist descendant of Mondrian — fully contains the explosive energy of the work within the pictorial space.