Timeline for Why centrifugal force (not centripetal force) is considered while deriving the effect of rotation of Earth on "g"?
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| Dec 6, 2017 at 5:57 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2017 at 4:40 | comment | added | mmesser314 | Related question that might be useful - Do centripetal and reactive centrifugal forces cancel each other out? | |
| Dec 6, 2017 at 4:15 | vote | accept | suiz | ||
| Dec 6, 2017 at 2:42 | comment | added | Jahan Claes | Centripetal force is never a separate force in the problem. It is always a LABEL given to an existing force. For example, if you're spinning a rock on a string, the centripetal force is the tension. It's not a new force you add to your free body diagram. It's a force that's ALREADY ON your free body diagram. In contrast, centrifugal force is a (pseudo)force you ADD to your free body diagram to make up for the fact that a reference frame is non-inertial. | |
| Dec 6, 2017 at 2:35 | answer | added | probably_someone | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 6, 2017 at 2:32 | answer | added | J0KerSpin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 6, 2017 at 1:58 | history | asked | suiz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |