Do All Points on a Rotating Rigid Disk Experience Centripetal Acceleration?

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Does a rotating rigid disk, for example, feel centripetal acceleration at each point of its body?

or more general: Is centripetal acceleration only for non-rigid bodies? (ball on a string, ex)?
 
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yes. or rather, it "feels" the centrifugal force..