Centrifugal force – meet the resistance

Subject :Science and technology

Section: Msc

Centrifugal force:

Centrifugal force is a force that an object perceives when it is moving in a curved path – always in the direction away from the center of the path of rotation.
The centrifugal force is often called an actual force but it is really the product of inertia – the tendency for an object to maintain its state of motion.
Unlike actual forces, which arise from an interaction between forces like gravity or magnetism, the centrifugal force arises when an object resists a change of direction. And moving on a curved path is to constantly change direction.

Use of this force:

The concept of centrifugal force can be applied in rotating devices, such as centrifuges, centrifugal pumps, centrifugal governors, and centrifugal clutches, and in centrifugal railways, planetary orbits and banked curves, when they are analyzed in a rotating coordinate system.
Research laboratories, the pharmaceutical and dairy industries, and the nuclear-energy sector around the world use this force in a machine called centrifuge.

Mixtures of substances are placed in small containers that are spun very fast.