Um. No.
The formula you gave for centripital force gives the amount of force needed
to exactly balance the inertial tendency of the object to fly off in a
straight line. That is, it's the amount of force needed to be applied to
that object to accelerate the object into a circular path (remember that
orbiting bodies are under constant acceleration).
However, if you could actually /get/ the end of the stick to go the speed of
light, it would violate physics as we know them, becoming a singularity. A
black hole is, in fact, a type of singularity.
--Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Anthony Wong [mailto:anthony@;intracomm.com]
: Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:52 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RE: Hey Ben RE: MAthematical Equation
:
:
: You may want to apply Newton's second law, F = ma. For circular motion,
: centripetal acceleration a = v (square) / r. R is the radius of
: the circular
: motion. Combined, we'll get F = mv(square) /r. imagine if you're going to
: travel in the speed of light, the centripetal force will be so
: great you'll
: be sucked in ! Guess that's where you'll get a black hole.
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