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Centripetal force on and off

12 Jul 2020 - Seng Kwang Tan

07 Circular Motion Demonstrations

Here's a quick video to demonstrate the movement of a ball initially moving in a circle before its centripetal force (contact force by the circular wall) is removed. The ball is observed to move in a tangent to the circle, in accordance with Newton's 1st Law, since there is no longer a net force acting on it.

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