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Invalidated site: The Physics Classroom - The Forbidden F-Word. Sep 03, 2026
Add new Web site: Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Foundations of Physics - Centripetal Forces. Feb 21, 2026
Add new Web site: Mathematical Association - Centrifugal Force: Fact or Fiction? (PDF). Sep 20, 2025
Add new Web site: The Physics Classroom - The Forbidden F-Word. Apr 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Mathematical Association - Centrifugal Force: Fact or Fiction? (PDF). Feb 21, 2025
Add new Web site: MLibrary Digital Collections - The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project - Central and centrifugal forces. Jan 09, 2025
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - Centrifugal Force in the Electric Circuit. Oct 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Centrifugal and Coriolis Forces. Jul 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Pseudo forces, centrifugal force. Feb 02, 2024
Add new Web site: West Texas A&M University - Why is the centrifugal force talked about so much if it's not real? Sep 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - What Are Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces? Jan 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - What are centrifugal and centripetal forces? Jun 10, 2022
Removed media. Jul 26, 2021
Discussion of centrifugal force's dependence on radius changed from it having a direct dependence on radius to an inverse dependence on radius. Aug 17, 2016
Added video. Apr 30, 2015
Add new Web site: Kidipede Science for Kids - Centrifugal Force. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: Miller Center - Biography of Charles W. Fairbanks. Feb 03, 2014
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Centrifugal Force. Feb 03, 2014
Added new Web site: Physics, Spaceflight and the Earth's Magnetism - Frames of Reference: The Centrifugal Force. Aug 16, 2007
Added new Web site: Dynamic Flight - Centrifugal Force. Aug 16, 2007
Added new Web site: Theories With Problems - What is centrifugal force? Aug 16, 2007
Article revised and updated. Jun 01, 2006
Article revised. Feb 08, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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