PCS 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Centripetal Force, Hypotenuse, Datu
1 Dec 2015
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In this lab we set out to demonstrate how centripetal force and it"s center-seeking properties were attained using existing forces that we could measure. This proved to make the actual formulation of the lab procedure very easy because we didn"t have to set out to use a special new force. All we had to do was use the forces that we already knew about to create the effect of centripetal force. This also allowed us to do the lab calculations without much effort. The most important thing that we had to remember in this experiment is that centripetal force is not a separate force in and of itself. Centripetal force is merely a sum of the forces that cause an object to move in a circular path. This allowed us to account for the centripetal force by using other forces which we already knew about and knew how to calculate.
