Timeline for Generation of artificial gravity by rotation
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| Mar 16, 2016 at 9:26 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | Asher | @SufyanNaeem nothing "drives occupants outwards" radially. The move inertially in straight lines until something pushes them out of a straight line. In this case, they are moving on a straight tangential path until the wall pushes them inward; even then, if the wall only pushed them for a moment, it would result in a new inertial, tangential path. The continuous acceleration toward the center (centripetal, not centrifugal) is what causes the feeling of gravity. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 14:54 | comment | added | docscience | There's also an issue of Coriolis acceleration that comes about from the rotational motion, not gravity. For the smaller space station this force would be greater giving an unusal experience of gravity as compared to what we experience on earth. As you move about the station one would feel sideways pulling forces making it difficult to walk in a straight line. A bigger station would help minimize these forces. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 13:47 | comment | added | user104909 | Wikipedia article suggests that the force which drives occupants outwards on rotation is centrifugal force. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 13:37 | comment | added | user104909 | How does friction come into play? | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 13:17 | history | answered | Asher | CC BY-SA 3.0 |