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What is the force that flings an object off under negative Gs?
This is what I mean: Say a bird was flying in the air, and a bee was on its back (for some reason). The bird nosedives toward the ground, and right before it hits the ground it right itself, however upside down (so that when it's flying normally it is upside down). The bee is flung off. What force is it? Centripetal force? Inertia? Momentum? Or simply the Negative Gs? (Or something else)
3 Answers
- oldprofLv 74 years ago
When the force causes something to flee from the center of turn it's called centrifugal force. Which means literally flee (fugal) from the center (centri). In the bee's case, it flees off the bird's back because it wants to go straight but the bird flies in a curve. So the bee continues on straight while the bird curves inward. And the bee splits from the bird's back.
- 4 years ago
Inertia. The bird subjected itself to an acceleration to right itself, but the bee had no such thing; it continued its trajectory due to inertia---lack of external force.
