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Recent Examples on the Web SpinLaunch, as the startup is called, wants to — as the name implies — spin projectiles, using centrifugal force to drum up enough energy to send an object to space. — Jackie Wattles; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 14 June 2022 Simply place each can on a table and rotate it along its axis, and the centrifugal force will make the pernicious bubbles go away. — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022 The mysterious event becomes the centrifugal force of the book. — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022 For instance, with a shearing force, the area of the raft was much smaller than when the ants encountered just centrifugal force. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2022 Manage the dough from the top, and allow gravity and a little centrifugal force to do the work. — Carlo Mirarchi, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2021 This means that that block of water on Earth’s surface facing the moon would have a centrifugal force of 3.55 Newtons pulling it toward the moon. — Rhett Allain, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021 Tides are caused by a combination of three forces: the gravitational force from Earth, the force from the moon, and a centrifugal force due to Earth's motion as the moon pulls on it. — Rhett Allain, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021 Clive later discouraged a young adult Fred from working in the record business, though Fred, like his siblings, would later let himself be tugged by sheer centrifugal force into the industry’s orbit. — Amy X. Wang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021 See More

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“Centrifugal force.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centrifugal%20force. Accessed 7 Jul. 2022.

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