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Originally Posted by MPGranger
Also, it's apparent that I do not posses a physics degree. I was wrestling with centrifugal/centripetal conundrum; I used wikipedia, but alas I still don't get the difference.
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The centripetal force is external, like gravity pulling at a satellite.
Or you pulling on the control ropes of a model airplane on a wire ; or swinging a lasso.
If you stop pulling on the rope, the plane or the lasso will shoot off due to the centrifugal force of the moving object which is no longer countered by the missing centripetal force.