Centripetal Force

For our last Science Club meeting we learned about Centripetal Force. Centripetal force is a force, which keeps a body moving with uniform speed along a circular path. We did two experiments to deminstrate this law of motion.
First: was swinging a cup in a circle on a piece of cardboard with strings. The cup had water in it, so if you could keep the cup moving in a circle motion with consistant speed the water would not spill.








Second we made cotton candy, which is a real world example of centripetal force, (just like riding on a roller coaster).