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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
ahh but I've heard that isn't quite true - if it's centrifugal force, and you drop something it will fall in a curvature. (ie spinning space ship where you live inside the spinning curve to create gravity from centrifugal force) gravity falls direct line to the center of mass......
but aside from that....they seem like that same force....
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Curvature is CENTRIPETAL force, not CENTRIFUGAL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_force
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Centripetal force (from Latin centrum "center" and petere "to seek"[1]) is a force that makes a body follow a curved path: it is always directed orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the instantaneous center of curvature of the path.
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