Why Is It So? — Season 1, Episode 11: Centrifugal Force and Other Strange Matters

Episode synopsis

Miller writes ""centrifugal"" in quotation marks because there is no force acting radially on rotating bodies. Balls, candles, hoops, and weights experience torques of which Miller says little.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Idea of the Center of Gravity
• E2Newton's First Law of Motion-Inertia
• E33. Newton's Second Law of Motion – The Elevator Problem
• E4Newton's Third Law of Motion – Momentum
• E5Energy and Momentum
• E6Concerning Falling Bodies and Projectiles
• E7The Simple Pendulum and Other Oscillating Things
• E8Adventures with Bernoulli
• E9Soap Bubbles and Soap Films
• E10Atmospheric Pressure – The Properties of Gases
• E12The Strange Behavior of Rolling Things
• E13Archimedes' Principle