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Say if you have water in the bucket and you spin it around really fast creating a vertically cricle. How come it won't fall on you when its at the top?
Vertical Circular Motion involving centripetal force
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Say if you have water in the bucket and you spin it around really fast creating a vertically cricle. How come it won't fall on you when its at the top?
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Hi Ammar SH! 
Short answer: because the bucket is falling faster than the water is (and at the top, it's moving horizontally anyway).
Technical answer: look up centripetal acceleration, and do F = ma (vertically).
Ammar SH said:
Short answer: because the bucket is falling faster than the water is (and at the top, it's moving horizontally anyway).
Technical answer: look up centripetal acceleration, and do F = ma (vertically).