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Circular Motion And Centripetal Force
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Circular Motion And Centripetal Force
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Tie the stone to one end of a string. Take the other end in your hand and rotate the string so that the stone moves along a circle as shown in given figure.
As long as we are holding the string, we are pulling the stone towards us i.e. toward the center of the center and applying a force towards it. The force stops acting if we released the string, in this case, the stone will fly of along a straight line which is tangent of the circle at the position of the stone when the string is released, because that is the direction of its velocity at that instant of time {figure: b}. You may recall that we have performed a similar activity previously in which a 5 rupee coin kept on a rotating circular disk files off the disk along the tangent to the disk. Thus, a force acts on any object moving along a circle and it is directed towards the center of the circle. This is called the Centripetal force.
'Centripetal' means center seeking i.e. the object tries to go towards the center of the circle because of this force.
You know that the moon, which is the natural satellite of the earth, goes around it in a definite orbit. The direction of a motion of the moon as well as its speed constantly changes during the motion.
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