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Uncommon card · Science
Centripetal force, an Uncommon card
Centripetal force is the force that makes a body follow a curved path.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The direction of the centripetal force is always orthogonal to the motion of the body and towards the fixed point of the instantaneous center of curvature of the path.
- Isaac Newton coined the term, describing it as "a force by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or in any way tend, towards a point as to a centre".
- In Newtonian mechanics, gravity provides the centripetal force causing astronomical orbits.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Centripetal force article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Centripetal force
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Centripetal force (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ponor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

