Centrifugal Definition and 352 Threads

We all know that the Centrifugal force is not a real force.However,we can use it mathematically. This Wikipedia Article on Centrifugal force States that: But, According to Newton's first law,objects tend to move in a straight line or stay at rest at a constant velocity unless no external...

Homework Statement There is a fixed coordinate system and a rotating one. the origins don't coincide. The situation is like a stone falling from a tower on earth, where the rotating system has it's origin at the base of the tower. Are the coriolis and centrifugal forces dependent on the...

According to the wikipedia page, when given an angular velocity, centrifugal force increases with radius. I always thought the larger the radius, the smaller the centrifugal force. I think I'm misunderstanding some term here (possibly "angular velocity"). Can someone please explain?

The problem asks me to find the density of gas in a cylinder of radius R and length l rotating about its axis with angular velocity ω, there being a total of N molecules in the cylinder. What I have done is shown as following I choose to look this scenario in a static frame with the cylinder...

Maybe I need to take a little break from my studies but I'm not getting this at all. At the risk of looking really dumb, here's what I need help with; Imagine that you are living in a rotating space habitat. The habitat has a diameter and a rotational speed such that at the outer edge you...

I've got a weekly physics assignment, and I've been racking my brain on it. Any input on the accuracy of my response, what I could do to improve it, and where I may have gone wrong? Homework Statement Some years ago, a newspaper story contained the following statement" "The space shuttle...

Homework Statement 13. Why does the water in a washing machine escape through the little holes during the spin cycle? a The water is flung out of the clothes by the centripetal force. b The water is flung out of the washer by the centrifugal force. c The water is sucked out of the...

Hello! I have some doubts regarding centrifugal force.. Imagine yourself in a car which is taking a sharp turn. You tend to fall to the other side ( if the car door is open you'd fall out of the car) Is this because of inertia which opposes the sudden change in motion or is it because of...

How fast would a hollow cylindrical object seven miles in diameter need to spin to maintain Earth gravity on the interior surface?

I am not sure I get the concept of centrifugal force.. If we have a stone tied to a thread and we just spin it in a circle, and while we are spinning it in a circle, the thread breaks and the stone flies off tangentially. If we watch this motion from an inertial frame, which force will be...

Homework Statement The pump characteristic curve of a centrifugal pump can be plotted from the following details: (See attachment) The pump delivers 90 L/s when pumping against a static head of 12 m. Plot the pump characteristic curve from the details given and calculate: 1. The...

My grade 11 textbook never mentioned about inertial frame, non- inertial frame, rotating frame of reference and so son.The derivation of centripetal acceleration was very intuitive.This derivation was given after Laws of Inertia and other Newton's laws of motion.Ideas like cross product and dot...

There is a grass planted in a container which spins. Will the grass grow from the center of the container or will it bend towards the center. These are provided answers: This is a question in my book and there it is stated that it will bend towards the center(A answer) but it is not...

The centrifugal force is $$ \Omega\times r\times \Omega $$ I paper I am reading then writes it as ##\frac{1}{2}(r\Omega)^2 - \frac{1}{2}\Omega^2r^2## How was this obtained? Using the fact that ##a\times b\times c = (ac)b - (ab)c##, I don't get what they are getting so there is...

I am building a jet boat as a project this year. I am going construct the impeller my self but don't know what dimensions I need to make it to get the most out of the engines without over loading them. Here's what I have to work with: The power source is going to be approximately 90 hp at...

Hi, I have this problem that I'm trying to solve and it has been a few years since I've taken Physics. I want to know how you would approach and solve this problem, and what equations you would use. Hopefully somebody here can help me out. The Problem: A vehicle is on a road that is V inches...

In this video, I would like to know why the operator of the centrifugal pump had to fill the pump with water first? Thanks!

Hi, i have a curve g:[0,t]->IR² with g(t)=(x(t),y(t)) in a homogenous gravitational field and i want to look at a ball rolling down this curve. therefore i want to derive some equations in order to calculate the normal force and the centripetal force at each point of this curve in order to see...

First time poster, thanks for help I wonder if low tide is caused by centrifugal force at noon time and high tide at midnight? The centrifugal force pushes sea water toward the center of the Earth at day time, away from it at night time. So, a man weights more at day time than night time. Am...

This may seem like a very simple question but given my lack of knowledge in the area, I'm stumped: If we have a rotating "space station" a la 2001: A Space Odyssey where the outer ring is at normal Earth gravity, what is the factor to determine how much gravity would be at various points...

Mod note: This thread on the reactive centrifugal force was split from this thread on the (fictitious) centrifugal force. It is really not that confusing if you make clear which reference frame you consider.

I think that there is no such thing as centrifugal force . Am I right ? is this force fictitious ?

I swing an accelerometer around my head with a constant relative speed of v and a radius of r. I want the exact formula with highly relativistic effects, so v = .8 c and r = 1 meter, say. What proper acceleration will the accelerometer read?

Hello everyone. I am working on a VTOL RC craft that I hope will work. I was planning on using a centrifugal fan to accelerate air radially (instead of a squirrel-cage design), and putting 45 degree truncated cones around it to direct it downwards. I wrote a program with many small...

In lecture 5 of MIT's OCW 8.01 , Prof. Lewin says that when you're in in uniform circular motion, the perceived gravity is always in the opposite direction as the push or pull (so if you're holding onto the end of a rope that's being spun around horziontally, the rope is pulling on you and you...

Hello, the problem I am working on is: "A puck of mass m = 51.0 g is attached to a taut cord passing through a small hole in a frictionless, horizontal surface (see figure below). The puck is initially orbiting with speed v_i = 1.30 m/s in a circle of radius r_i = 0.310 m. The cord is then...

I'm learning about mechanics in noninertial frames and I'd like to clarify the apparent centrifugal force. To set things straight, Centrifugal force = Fcf = m(Ω×r)×Ω where Ω×r is the instaneous velocity at a point on the outside of a circle (or other rotating path) and Ω is the...

Take half torus with solid part of density 1, other half torus with liquid of density 1. The torus turn at W rd/s enough for maintain liquid at external circle. Now, for 0 to 180° we accelerate torus, this increase forces (blue in drawing) from pressure of water and from 180° to 360° we...

In physics today, my teacher told me that Centrifugal force is a fake force? Is this true? What exactly is Centrifugal force? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, thank you for reading this topic. This is something that really bothers me...First of all let me say that I know what the terms centripetal and centrifugal stand for. What's the problem then? The problem is that I've always read that the centripetal force is an actual force and that...

Would you feel more centrifugal force going around a small radius curve or a large radius curve going at constant speed? Why?

Homework Statement The friction coefficient between the tires and the road is 0.6. What is the maximum velocity of the car without it sliding out of the turn. The radius of the curve is 80m. The curve is considered to be horizontal (as ridiculous as it may sound)Homework Equations F = ma The...

I am interested in calculating the centrifugal twisting moment (CTM) of a variable-pitch propeller blade. It's been a long time since I did anything with moments of inertia, so I'm looking for pointers to good info, or direct help if someone here can provide it. Assume there is a propeller with...

Homework Statement The first problem I am having trouble with is as follows: A child pushes a 40kg sled across the ice at a constant speed. If μk = 0.05 calculate the force applied to the sled. Homework Equations I know that f=\muFN The Attempt at a Solution I know that the...

hi i found the following equation that a spring(with constant k) , a mass m rotating with angular velocity ω, will have a constant angle \alpha to the vertical axis that is given by cos(\alpha)=\frac{g}{\omega^2 l}(1-\frac{m \omega^2}{k}) this looks similar to something like...

1. I'm in my first year of physics, and the end-of-year project is a bit of a doozy: find two examples of misapplied physics in movies and explain how it's wrong. For my first example, I chose a scene from the movie "The Iron Giant," in which the Giant picks up a car with Hogarth, our child...

What are the consequences of the explosion of a steel wheel by the action of centrifugal force and spinning at high speed? Am I creating the energy of this explosion?

Centrifugal pump as turbine! Dear Friends, Francis turbine and centrifugal pump has got the same (reverse ofcourse) technologies rt. Have they both got the same manufacturing criterion? will centrifugal pumb, if used as a turbine, have the same efficiency as that of francis turbine?

This should be an easy one but here goes... I am trying to easily measure flow rate in a pipe which has an in line centrifugal pump (Grundfos UPS 25-60) creating the head in the system. I have been told that installing a pressure gauge before and directly after the pump will give me system...

hi i was wondering why rockets always start upright, as if they would start in a position parallel to the surface of the earth(or at least almost parallel to the earth, but at the equator this should not be such a problem, if there are no mountains or anything else close to the point where...

I am a bit confused about these accelerations. Anything that rotates has a linear acceleration which is a vector in the same direction as linear velocity . There is also a centripetal acceleration which "pulls" wants to pull the objects towards the axis of rotation. So the sum of these two...

"Centrifugal force" Homework Statement A smooth horizontal tube of length l rotates about a vertical axis. A particle placed at the extreme end of the tube is projected towards O(axis) with a velocity lω while at the same time the tube rotates about the axis with constant angular speed ω...

Homework Statement I have a question concerning the desig of high-velocity, high-pressure industrial blowers. The company wants to avoid welding the blades to the impeller sides as welding causes the blades to deform slightly, and dynamic balancing of the impeller is difficult because of weld...

1. As far as the derivation goes, Cp(T02-T01)= Euler work= U2Cx2 in a centrifugal compressor... where T01 and T02 are the stagnation temperatures...however, in a solved problem in my book, it writes: Cp(T2-T1)= Euler work= U2Cx2...and therefore uses static temperature instead of stagnation...

I don't understand how its a fictitious force and why you need to be in the rotating frame of reference to observe it? In the example of the moon and the Earth and its tides. You have the centripetal force causing the tides to increase at the point where the Earth is facing the moon and the...

Hi, i'm comparing differents types of compressor to find out which one I'm going to convert into a turbine for my rankine cycle projet. And I'm wondering : are centrifugal compressors only for big power because the smallest i can find is 50 hp (which is the smallest turbo of garrett). I'm...

Homework Statement Hi, I am confused about the relationship between the centrifugal force and radius. The centrifugal force equation for an object having constant mass and angular velocity moving around the Earth on GRS80 reference is Fc = m w^2/r (m=mass, w^2=angular velocity of the...

Hello all! I just want to ask help from you guys, I am trying to select which fan would apply on my toy project, ok, here is my setup, I have a base, and on it is a fan and on top of that is a tube, like a duct, and what I am trying to see is what kind of fan i can use to ascend or make a...

I just read that Centrifugal Force is a false force. It does not exist. Inertia (which is not a force) is mistakenly called Centrifugal force. Now, here is my question According to Newton's 3rd law of motion, forces always exist in pairs; action and reaction. Centripetal force which is the...

Does the local pressure lost endured in an entrance to a container (k =1) equal to the same local pressure lost of an entrance to a hydraulic Centrifugal pump (in basic hydraulic with mostly ideal conditions - neglecting friction). Or do we ignore it as local pressure lost?