Centripetal force acts toward the center of the circle. The so-called centrifugal force, the pulling toward the outside of a circle that is felt, for example, when going around curves in the road in a car, is not really a force. The definitions above have accounted for the forces in uniform circular motion. The centrifugal pull actually comes from Newton's first law.
The velocity of the object is tangential to the path. The object's inertia causes it to prefer to remain traveling along the tangential path; a force is required to keep it
moving in a circle. The tendency to stay on the tangential path is felt as the centrifugal pull; the force required to keep the object in a circle is the centripetal force.
Example:
The solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at a distance of approximately completes an orbit about once every .
