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Definition of Centripetal force
1. Noun. The inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body.
Definition of Centripetal force
1. Noun. (physics) The force on a rotating or orbiting body in the direction of the centre of rotation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centripetal Force
Literary usage of Centripetal force
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A College Text-book of Physics by Arthur Lalanne Kimball (1917)
"For example, when a weight is whirled in a circle by a cord, it is held \n the
circle by the tension of the cord which supplies the centripetal force, ..."
2. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte, John Machin (1729)
"Of tie invention of orbits ^erein fc -will revoke, being a%ed upon any fort of
centripetal force PROPOSITION XL. THEOREM XIII. ..."
3. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1841)
"... and the attraction of the sun, by which it is drawn downwards, or towards a
centre, is called its centripetal force, and it is by these two forces that ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"a centrifugal force that is in excess of the centripetal force felt at this same
point; and the matter of her surface facing the sun, being nearest to it, ..."
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