I swear my physics prof claimed one of these didn’t exist as a force – I think it was centripetal. But that was a long time ago. Maybe it was discovered recently. Such confuse.
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Centripetal force is drawing toward the center, like a satellite orbiting the Earth. It keeps falling and missing the earth.
Centrifugal is the feeling of, say, being in a car turning in a circle but you feel thrown or leaning away from the center, to the outside.
Centripetal is more an actual force objectively, centrifugal force is a pseudo force subjectively.
It’s about your frame of reference.
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