Nothing supplies a mysterious 'centripetal force' — it's whatever real force happens to point at the centre. Identify that force and the problem is already solved. On a banked track, it's a component of the normal force doing the work. This is the real knowscape from knowhere, not a picture of one. Drag it. Watch what actually changes.
Nothing here moves in a straight line because something is always pulling it inward — and if it spins instead of travels, that same pull becomes a twist around a point. Every question hands you a force and asks where it points: to the centre, or around it. Name the direction and the motion is solved.
Centripetal force is not a new force but the name for whichever real force or force component points toward the centre of the circular path.
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