Home › Entities › general › centrifugal force

centrifugal force

type of inertial force
Thing general Q178733
centrifugal force
Pearson Scott Foresman · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

centrifugal force ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,464 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: fictitious force[2]
  • Part of: weight[3], inertia[4]
  • Commons category: Centrifugal force[5]
  • Has cause: centrifugal acceleration[6], centripetal acceleration[7], mass[8], non-inertial reference frame[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[10]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/centrifugal-force[11]
  • Different from: centripetal force[12], reactive centrifugal force[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Physics[15]

Why It Matters

centrifugal force has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). centrifugal force. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/centrifugal-force
MLA “centrifugal force.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/centrifugal-force.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_centrifugal-force_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{centrifugal force}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/centrifugal-force}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): centrifugal force — https://4ort.xyz/entity/centrifugal-force (retrieved 2026-10-14)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/centrifugal-force · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['2Bn3f3', '4O1KF0']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 17840, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.