When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion describes the behavior of a massive body at rest or in uniform ...

Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion states, "A body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion unless it is acted upon by an external force." What, then, happens to a body ...

Centrifugal force () is the apparent force that draws a rotating body away from the center of rotation. It is caused by the inertia of the body. In Newtonian mechanics, the term centrifugal force is ...