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any force responsible for maintaining an object on a curved path around a fixed center. In introductory coursework this is usually "uniform circular motion" and yields several simple and useful relations. Not to be confused with the centrifugal pseudo-force experienced in an accelerated referenced frame.

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The force arrow for centripetal force points in the opposite direction of my calculation?

The centripetal force is always going to be supplied by some other force in the problem. You shouldn’t have a force labeled as the centripetal force but one of the forces in a problem will be serving …
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