Friday, January 16, 2015

Is there a huge difference between centrifugal and centripetal forces?


I am doing a video for 8th grade on the subject. I'm showing the experiment of swinging a bucket of water over your head. Is there a huge difference between centrifugal and centripetal forces? Would it be wrong to say the two forces are practically the same thing?




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