How to Use centripetal force in a Sentence
centripetal force
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Once in space, the wires are unwound by the motor, assisted by the centripetal force of the spinning craft.
—The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
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This spun up the larger star, and the centripetal force flung off material in a huge disk well over a light years across.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2011
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For any object moving in a circle, there needs to be a centripetal force, or a force pulling it towards the circle’s center.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
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The spod flies through the air-centripetal force holds the crud glob in place until splashdown-then the rocker rights itself, raining a sloppy food cloud onto the lake bottom.
—Kirk Deeter, Field & Stream, 5 Dec. 2020
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But: The centripetal force that holds the album together as a form is really starting to wobble.
—Ben Ratliff, Esquire, 2 Dec. 2016
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The virus has been a centripetal force pushing us physically together — my children, my spouse, my work, and me — but in the best case scenario, that force will weaken soon.
—Washington Post, 17 May 2021
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This water tornado keeps its shape because of centripetal force, which pulls the water toward the center of the bottle as gravity pulls it down.
—Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 10 June 2020
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For Hubble, this centripetal force is the gravitational force due to its interaction with the Earth.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
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The force that causes this circular acceleration is then called the centripetal force.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Apr. 2020
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Think back to the vaguely familiar high school science terms of centripetal force and angular momentum.
—Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
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Such notions, notes a disinterested British official, run up against the centripetal forces that drive many EU countries to remain as close to the core as possible.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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The modern city was a centripetal force spinning beyond control, operating at a scale and pace that could only be inhuman.
—Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
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The whole experiment takes on the look of a Gravitron ride as quadcopters whip around the pole at speeds exceeding 30 miles per hour, generating centripetal force 14 times the pull gravity.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2015
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Instead, activists and political neophytes drawn into the centripetal force of Black Lives Matter in 2020 have been chastised, denigrated, and dismissed as naïve and out of touch.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
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The centrifugal forces pulling Europe apart would finally overwhelm the centripetal forces binding it together.
—Simon Nixon, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2017
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Without any mind-blowing sci-fi level breakthroughs, the only practical way to imitate gravity on a trip to Mars is by spinning the spacecraft and creating a centripetal force.
—ABC News, 25 July 2021
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Objects traveling in a circular path experience an acceleration inward towards the center of the circle and a force—the centripetal force—outward from the center.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
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These days, more of my thoughts arrive as trite, Twitter-size observations, and my more offbeat tastes have been transformed into smoother, more mainstream ones by the centripetal force of algorithmic recommendations.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
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The evidence suggests that there are centripetal forces that keep metropolitan areas from continually expanding outward, and that centripetal force is going to remain.
—Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
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American leadership provides the centripetal force to consolidate documentation efforts and incorporate the rapidly coalescing array of private documentation efforts.
—Michael A. Newton, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
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