centripetal forcein a sentence
- Traveling feet-first along the ladder, he soon had to grip it in earnest as the centripetal force of the rotating ship took hold.† (source)
- The motion of an object in a circle requires that there be a force directed toward the center of the circle (sometimes called a "centripetal force").† (source)
- When most people think of centrifugal force, physicists think of centripetal force.
- As she climbed "up" the ladder to the center of the ship, the centripetal force on her diminished to zero.† (source)
- Gravitational forces are always directed downward upon a rider's body; thus, gravitational forces cannot meet this centripetal force requirement.† (source)
- The seat must supply the centripetal force, pushing upwards on the rider with a force greater than gravity's downward pull.† (source)
- mild curiosity about the other's fortunes, a regret, even, that we should be separated, and the knowledge that either of us had only to pick up the telephone and speak by the other's pillow, enjoy the intimacies of the levee, coming in, as it were, with the morning orange juice and the sun, yet be restrained from doing so by the centripetal force of our own worlds and the cold, interstellar space between them.† (source)
- The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha.† (source)
- What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal.† (source)
- And she had a shamed recollection of the way in which, a few hours since, she had felt the centripetal force of their standards.† (source)