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Use Newton’s law of motion to explain why a body moving with uniform speed in a circle must experience a force towards the center of the circle.



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The direction of the net force is in the same direction as the acceleration. So for an object moving in a circle, there must be an inward force acting upon it in order to cause its inward acceleration. This is sometimes referred to as the centripetal force requirement.

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