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How does the earth orbit the sun without losing energy?

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Chapter5: Gravity

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Problem 30RQ: How do planets orbiting the Sun and skaters doing a spin both conserve angular momentum?

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Centripetal Force

A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal force.

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