Timeline for Why does foam in a rotating liquid accumulate near the centre?
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| Dec 31, 2019 at 12:11 | vote | accept | AlphaLife | ||
| Nov 23, 2019 at 17:12 | comment | added | user10216038 | You can create names for fictitious forces in non-inertial reference frames, but they are still fictitious. Imagine being in a closed box that periodically lurches left and right and forward and back. You can perform experimental measurements within this box and name this bizarre force . You can correctly account for measurements and results by factoring in this Gollywobble force, but it’s still a fictitious force that is a result of using a non-inertial frame of reference, it doesn’t exist. So too centrifugal force is fictitious and doesn’t exist, despite having a widely recognized name. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 22:59 | comment | added | user10216038 | www2.physics.uiowa.edu/~rmerlino/1701_F_16/… | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 22:27 | comment | added | cms | I don’t know who started this meme, but it needs to die. Forces in non-inertial reference frames deserve names like any other force. Here’s another one: Coriolis force. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 2:59 | comment | added | user10216038 | Nice answer with diagrams, but centrifugal force? [sic] No such thing! | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 8:41 | comment | added | KF Gauss | Isn't the relevant thing here the acceleration, not the force? | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 22:15 | history | edited | cms | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2019 at 19:45 | history | answered | cms | CC BY-SA 4.0 |