Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 34
ual, the centri-petal and centrifugal forces are always opposed and equalto each other. If a ball is whirled about the hand, being re-tained by a string, it has a continual tendency to fly off,which tendency is resisted by the strength of the string; thetendency to fly off is due to the centrifugal… … Fig. ia force were destroyed, the body would continue to move along thatline on which it was situated : that is, its new path would be tangentto its old one. The existence of the centrifugal force may be shown experiment-Example. Flow does a body move when the centripetal force is destroyed t 32…
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