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Real force or fictitious?

Exercise and reference answers

Items
  1. Group
    Real
    Item
    String tension
  2. Group
    Fictitious
    Item
    Thrown sideways
  3. Group
    Real
    Item
    Earth's gravity
  4. Group
    Fictitious
    Item
    Pushed to seat
  5. Group
    Real
    Item
    Tyre friction
  6. Group
    Fictitious
    Item
    Flung outward
  7. Group
    Real
    Item
    Road on a bank
  8. Group
    Fictitious
    Item
    Coriolis swirl
Groups
  1. Item
    Real
  2. Item
    Fictitious
Instructions
Steer each falling effect onto its own kind. Alike ones merge and grow.

Explanation

_Source: OpenStax College Physics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 "Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation", section 6.3 Centripetal Force_
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