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the thing we really hate about the centrifugal vs centripetal force thing is that people seem to present it as though they're two words for the same thing but one of them is wrong, which is wrong

they are distinct things, the centrifugal force doesn't exist in a non-rotating reference frame and points away from the center of rotation while the centripetal force points towards the center of rotation (and exists in all reference frames)
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