Answer
It’s called fictitious because there is nothing producing "centrifugal force"; you feel it because you are in a rotating, non-inertial reference frame.
Work Step by Step
This is discussed on page 148.
Conceptual Physics (12th Edition)
by Hewitt, Paul G.
Published by
Addison-Wesley
ISBN 10:
0321909100
ISBN 13:
978-0-32190-910-7
Chapter 8 - Reading Check Questions (Comprehension) - Page 153-154: 26
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