"sometimes people say that water is removed from clothes in a spin dryer by centrifugal force throwing the water outward. what is wrong with this statement?"

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anonymous · Answer

It should be Centripetal forces I think

anonymous · Answer

More explicitly, the water not thrown outward, but continues along at a tangent to the rotating washer, but can escape from the clothes because there are holes in the washer. So instead of going outward, it travels like a rock thrown from a sling, while the clothes are confined by the walls of the washer.