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CENTRIPETAL FORCE KIT [P.S.S.C] | Perfect for scientific demonstration

$ 22.00 excl. GST

  • This Centripetal Force Kit is a simple kit for demonstrating the effect of mass, radius and velocity on the centripetal force of a rotating body.
  • Supplied – low friction glass handle, resilient mass, washer masses, clips.
    (Refer to Circular Motion Apparatus listing for a sophisticated setup for conducting this experiment.)

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CENTRIPETAL FORCE KIT [P.S.S.C]
  • This Centripetal Force Kit is a simple kit for demonstrating the effect of mass, radius and velocity on the centripetal force of a rotating body.
  • Supplied – low friction glass handle, resilient mass, washer masses, clips.
    (Refer to Circular Motion Apparatus listing for a sophisticated setup for conducting this experiment.)

(Wikipedia excerpt: …”

A centripetal force (from Latin centrum, “center” and petere, “to seek”[1]) is a force that makes a body follow a curved path. The direction of the centripetal force is always orthogonal to the motion of the body and towards the fixed point of the instantaneous center of curvature of the path. Isaac Newton described it as “a force by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or in any way tend, towards a point as to a centre”.[2] In Newtonian mechanics, gravity provides the centripetal force causing astronomical orbits.

One common example involving centripetal force is the case in which a body moves with uniform speed along a circular path. The centripetal force is directed at right angles to the motion and also along the radius towards the centre of the circular path.[3][4] The mathematical description was derived in 1659 by the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens.[5][6]…”)

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