Centrifugal force (rotating reference frame)

Okay kiddo, let's talk about something called centrifugal force. Imagine you're sitting on a spinning merry-go-round in the park.

When the merry-go-round starts turning, you feel like you're being pushed outward, away from the center. You might even feel like you're going to fly off the ride! This feeling is caused by something called centrifugal force.

Centrifugal force is not a real force, like gravity or friction. Instead, it's what happens when you are in a rotating reference frame, like on that spinning merry-go-round. When an object is rotating, it has a tendency to want to keep moving in a straight line. But because it's stuck on a rotating platform, it can't.

So, the object gets pushed outward. This makes it seem like there is a force pushing it outward, but really it's just the object trying to keep moving in a straight line while the platform under it rotates.

In simple terms, centrifugal force is the outward feeling you get when you're on something that's spinning. It's not a real force, but just the effect of being in a rotating reference frame.