Concept — Net force directed toward the centre that maintains circular motion.
Present in chapters
03
Linked atoms
37 linked atoms.
02 Forze e leggi di Newton
03 Piano inclinato e moto circolare
- Acceleration on a bend
- Banking angle of the bend
- Car on a flat bend
- Problem — Car on a flat bend
- Problem — Flat bend, dry and wet
- Problem — Flat bend with strong friction
- Banked bends
- Worked example — Banked bend without friction
- Problem — Science fiction physics: zero gravity on a bend
- Problem — Cut string
- Problem — Centripetal force on a string
- The loop-the-loop
- The conical pendulum
- Problem — The bucket of water in the loop-the-loop
- Centripetal force
- Rotating spring
- Problem — Motorcyclist leaning into a bend
- Problem — LEO orbit
- Problem — Small ball on a rotating spring
- Problem — Conical pendulum
- Problem — Critical conical pendulum
- Problem — Why circular motion is accelerated
- Problem — Apparent weight on a merry-go-round
- Problem — Estimate of the centripetal force on a passenger
- Problem — Velocity of a conical pendulum
- Problem — Maximum velocity on a flat bend
- Problem — Minimum velocity in the loop-the-loop
- Problem — True or false on circular motion and inclined plane
08 Gravitazione universale
- Altitude of the geostationary orbit
- Worked example: the mass of the Sun from Kepler
- Circular orbit and centripetal force
- Why the Moon does not fall
- Estimate of the mass of the Galaxy