What is the Principle of a Working Washing Machine?

When we add soap and clothing to the washing machine to mix them, the machine rotates or spins at a very high speed, forcing the soap and filth on the clothing to come off the surface. After thoroughly cleaning the fabric, we can spin the machine once more to dry the garments' insides partially. Centrifugal force is used during the procedure to clean and dry the garments within the machine. 

Using centrifugal force, we can separate particles from a solution based on their size, shape, and density. In this procedure, a centrifuge tube is spun at a specific speed for a specified amount of time. The liquid can be separated from the suspended particles by centrifugal force. The particles are moved to the tube's bottom using centrifugal force.

Both of the processes mentioned above use centrifugal force and function similarly. Therefore, we can state that centrifugation is the washing machine's operating system.

Important Points Of Washing Machine:

• The centrifugal force is directed radially outwards from the rotation's axis if it coincides with the origin of the coordinate system.
• A piece of machinery known as a centrifuge rotates an object around a fixed axis while exerting a powerful force perpendicular to the spin axis.
• A washing machine uses centrifugation to clean and partially dry the garments that are fed into it by spinning at 800-1600 rpm to help soap and dirt leave the cloth's surface and into outlet pipes.
• A hypothetical force called centrifugal force, which is unique to particles traveling in a circle, is a force that has the same strength and dimensions as the centripetal force but acts in the opposite direction.