I first learned in high school physics about the myth of centrifugal force. On paper and in theory, it’s a very real force, one that pulls you away from something. The term comes up in the automotive ...

Centrifugal force () is the apparent force that draws a rotating body away from the center of rotation. It is caused by the inertia of the body. In Newtonian mechanics, the term centrifugal force is ...

HAVE you ever let the words “centrifugal force” escape from your lips? Shame on you: you might as well have called it the “hocus-pocus force”. You are in good company, though. Scientists, ...

Research in the International Space Station is not being done in "microgravity"(C&EN, Feb. 1, page 32). The textbook "Physics, Including Human Applications" by Fuller, Fuller, and Fuller (Longman ...