* Centripetal force and Centrifugal force, from an online Regents Exam physics tutorial by the Oswego City School District

Centripetal force ( from Latin centrum " center " and petere " to seek ") is a force that makes a body follow a curved path: its direction is always orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the fixed point of the instantaneous center of curvature of the path.

Centripetal force is generally the cause of circular motion.

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: 1: ' Centripetal force ' ( Newton originated this term, and its first occurrence is in this document ) impels or attracts a body to some point regarded as a center.

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Centripetal desiccation cracks ( with a dinosaur footprint in the center ) in the Lower Jurassic Moenave Formation at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, southwestern Utah.

Centripetal desiccation cracks in the Lower Jurassic Moenave Formation at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, southwestern Utah.

Centripetal separators are a typical method of collecting dirt, dust, and debris in industrial settings.

Centripetal or radial core reduction technology encompasses a substantial range of archaeological variability, using pieces of raw material with natural convexities just as well as heavily prepared centripetal cores.

Centripetal core reduction techniques are found in most Middle Paleolithic assemblages known from Africa and Eurasia.

* Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces at MathPages

* The Laws of Centripetal and Centrifugal Force ( 1769 )

It took legal actions to force them to do so: in 1864 the Supreme Court of the State of California ordered them under Writs of Mandamus ( The People of the State of California ex rel the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Henry P. Coon, Mayor ; Henry M. Hale, Auditor ; and Joseph S. Paxson, Treasurer, of the City and County of San Francisco.

Weight is the gravitational force acting on a given body — which differs depending on the gravitational pull of the opposing body ( e. g. a person's weight on Earth vs on the Moon ) — while mass is an intrinsic property of that body that never changes.

Rooster Teeth initially tried to release Red vs. Blue unnoticed by Halos owners because they feared that any communication would force them to end the project.

Mechanical power may be transmitted directly using a solid structure such as a driveshaft ; transmission gears can adjust the amount of torque or force vs. speed in much the same way an electrical transformer adjusts voltage vs current.

While in 1950 agriculture and farming shaped the landscape of the territory ( 42. 4 % of the working force vs 30. 5 % in industry and construction ), the trend shifted gradually during the 60s and 70s on the grounds of a growing industrial activity in the Alavese Plains ( Llanada Alavesa ), with the main focus lying on the industrial estates of Vitoria-Gasteiz ( Gamarra, Betoño and Ali Gobeo ) and, to a lesser extent, Salvatierra-Agurain and Araia.

The statement expresses " shock " at " the horrific events of September 11, 2001 " but, evoking " similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City, and, a generation ago, Vietnam ", describes Iraq as " a country which has no connection to the horror of September 11 ", and deplores the administration's " spirit of revenge " and the " simplistic script of ' good vs. evil ': " In our name, the Bush administration, with near unanimity from Congress, not only attacked Afghanistan but arrogated to itself and its allies the right to rain down military force anywhere and anytime.

The sequential unfolding of modules is observed as a very characteristic sawtooth pattern of the force vs elongation graph ; every tooth corresponds to the unfolding of a single protein module ( apart from the last that is generally the detachment of the protein molecule from the tip ) A lot of information about protein elasticity and protein unfolding can be obtained by this technique.

It provides data ( or a plot ) of force vs deformation for the conditions of the test method.

President Ellen R. Malcolm said, “ I think it is tremendously disrespectful to Sen. Clinton-who held up the nomination of a FDA commissioner in order to force approval of Plan B and who spoke so eloquently during the Supreme Court nomination about the importance of protecting Roe vs. Wade-to not give her the courtesy to finish the final three weeks of the primary process.

The drawback is that Harvard architectures force the designer to make assumptions about the ratio of instruction vs data memory, and this memory cannot be re-allocated at run time.

Investigation into the aircraft's autopilot showed that the force required to switch to CWS mode was different between the A and B channels ( 15 vs 20 pounds respectively ).

* Mephisto appears in Ghost Rider's ending in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where Dante and Trish force him to undo his demonic pact with Johnny Blaze.

A small force of enemies ( 24 in Gorf vs. 55 in Space Invaders ) attacks in the classic pattern set by the original game.

The shape of the graph of force vs time in a twitch contraction can give information about the relative rates of calcium release and re-uptake from the sarcoplasmic reticulum.

* Red Army is the opposing force to the Blue Army in the popular machinima Red vs. Blue.

Overview: Aliens force Captain Kirk, First Officer Spock, Abraham Lincoln and Surak to battle villains in a contest of good vs. evil.

Electric resistance welding ( ERW ) refers to a group of welding processes such as spot and seam welding that produce coalescence of faying surfaces where heat to form the weld is generated by the electical resistance of material vs the time and the force used to hold the materials together during welding.

Started 14 games at RDE, declared inactive vs. San Francisco, Dec. 3, with a knee injury and vs. Carolina, Dec. 31, with the Saints having clinched a playoff berth … Posted five or more tackles in seven contests ... Ranked 14th in the NFL with a career-high 10. 5 sacks and added 56 tackles ( 35 solo ), two pass defenses, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery … Had a sack in each of the first three games, and added a fumble recovery at Green Bay, Sept. 17 … Notched five stops, a career-high two sacks and a forced fumble at Tampa Bay, Nov. 5 … Had a pair of sacks again at Atlanta, Nov. 26 – where he also deflected a pass and forced a fumble – and had two more sacks at Dallas, Dec. 10 … Was also a force in the postseason, with eight stops in the NFC Divisional Playoffs vs. Philadelphia and seven tackles at Chicago in the NFC Championship.

The novel maintains major themes present in Lear, namely: gender roles, appearances vs. reality, generational conflict, hierarchical structures ( the Great chain of being ), madness, and the powerful force of nature.

Its force spun him around, but he recovered and got into stride again.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

`` I won't force Beth to come against her will.

It gave them all a chance to make a high-speed climbing turn attack and a break-away that would not take them into the overcast or force a tight-turn recovery.

Even so, it took her several days to force Walter to tell her Nicolas's whereabouts.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

The effects of television and other mass media are erasing regional dialects and localisms with a startling force.

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

The singular uncompromising force of their revolt against the cult of restraint is illustrated by their refusal to dance in a public place.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

Piepsam tries to stop him by force, receives a push in the chest from `` Life '', and is left standing in impotent and growing rage, while a crowd begins to gather.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

they are fields of force exerting a unique influence on the sensibilities and a unique relatedness to one another.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

Many Americans reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russia and turned to the repression of ideas by force.

The very nature of a choice so grounded in distinction and fact leads to the valid convictions which become force of will in the manifest leader.

In its dynamic form, it visualizes the community as the embodiment of an ontological force -- the race, for instance, which unfolds in history.

If he condemns the recent or the present, he condemns the past with no less force.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.