Why do solids move to centre in a whirlpool but to edges of a centrifuge ?

Subject: Why do solids move to centre in a whirlpool but to edges of a centrifuge ?

Date: Thu May 29 10:54:11 1997
Posted by Jocelyn Wishart
Grade level: teacher/prof
School: Dept of Education, Loughborough University
City: Loughborough State/Province: Leicestershire
Country: England
Area of science: Physics
ID: 864921251.Ph

Message:

My class are visiting a brewery where both methods of separation 
are used, we are having difficulty explaining both using 
centripetal force as defined in the A level textbook.

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