centrifugal force
Spin's outward push
Centrifugal force is the apparent outward force felt by an object moving in a curved path—the sensation pushing you against the car door when rounding a sharp turn.
Physicists call it a "fictitious force" because it arises from the rotating reference frame rather than any physical push.
The term applies broadly to anything flung outward by rotation: The centrifugal force of the spin cycle extracts water from clothes.
Something that divides
- spin cycleWasher's centrifugal drying stage
- rotorSpinning mechanical assembly
- drumStruck percussion cylinder
- turbineBlade-driven energy converter
governor · clutch · uranium enrichment · washing machine · salad spinner
Resistance to altered motion
- rotationTurning on an axis
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- radialEmanating from center
tangential · circular motion · torque · mechanics · gyroscopic · dynamics · kinetics · mass
Rotating amusement ride
- teacupsSmall handled drinking vessels
- tilt-a-whirlRotating fairground attraction
- spinning rideRotating fairground attraction
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
Unsteady, spinning sensation
- vertigoSensation of spinning
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- whirlingRotating swiftly in place
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
nausea · motion sickness · unsteadiness · reeling · weightlessness · pressure · pinned
separator
Something that divides
- spin cycleWasher's centrifugal drying stage
- rotorSpinning mechanical assembly
- drumStruck percussion cylinder
turbine · governor · clutch · uranium enrichment · washing machine · salad spinner
inertia
Resistance to altered motion
- rotationTurning on an axis
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
- accelerationRate velocity changes
radial · tangential · circular motion · torque · mechanics · gyroscopic · dynamics · kinetics · mass · vector
merry-go-round
Rotating amusement ride
- teacupsSmall handled drinking vessels
- tilt-a-whirlRotating fairground attraction
- spinning rideRotating fairground attraction
dizziness
Unsteady, spinning sensation
disorientation · nausea · motion sickness · unsteadiness · reeling · weightlessness · pressure · pinned
- motionmotion, movement, velocity, speed, momentum
- physicsphysics, momentum, atom, acceleration, gravity
- mechanicsturning, rotation, momentum, velocity, acceleration
- forcesgravity, electromagnetism, thrust, drag, friction
- rotationrotation, spin, axis of rotation, rotational motion, angular momentum
- spinningspin, rotate, revolve, whirl, twirl
centrifugal forcecentripetal force
Inward acceleration on curved paths
force, forceful, centre, fugitive, decentralize, centrifuge, decentralization, centrifugal, centrifuges