I imagine them as fast cars on a highway, when the cable is straight that’s not a problem, but when the cable has bends and stuff?
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Others have correctly noted that the electrons in wires are quite slow and thus there is no notable centrifugal force. But it still is there and it gets visible when you make them faster.
How to make them faster? Remove that wire which slows them down! Take an electron beam such as in a CRT monitor and apply a magnet to force it onto a bent or spiral-y path. That’s, from the outside, a centripetal force; which from the perspective of the electron is a centrifugal force.
If you still want a noticeable centrifugal force inside a (semi)conductor: that’s what a Hall sensor does. It essentially combines those two settings into a sensor for magnetism.
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