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Richard Boyce

Centripetal?

No comments about this yet, so maybe I have this wrong, but...

Isn't the fuel taken to the sides of the tank by centrifugal force, i.e. a force away from the centre? If so, centripetal force would be the reaction from the tank that stopped the fuel going further out.

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