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In my high school physics class, today we learned that centrifugal force is not real and when people say this, it is actually centripetal force. How did the idea of centrifugal force get widely known and spread, more so than centripetal force, if it does not exist?

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In my high school physics class, today we learned that centrifugal force is not real and when people say this, it is actually centripetal force. How did the idea of centrifugal force get widely known and spread, more so than centripetal force, if it does not exist?	1107