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Why is centrifugal force called fictitious? [duplicate]
When an object undergoes rotation, from the object's reference frame, which is a non-inertial reference frame, the object feels there is a radially outward force, a centrifugal force, acting on it. ...
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Why do we still use pseudo forces? [duplicate]
So when I was reading about Newton's laws, and my textbook (Sears and Zemansky's University Physics) gave the classic examples of when we might be tempted to create an additional "centrifugal ...
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Is the centrifugal force a real force? [duplicate]
Everyone calls the centrifugal force a pseudo force and claims that it is not really present, even though there are so many machines listed as taking advantage of it (e.g. centrifuge, washing machine, ...
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If centrifugal force isn't real then why am I being pushed on a merry go rournd? [duplicate]
I just finished my class on circular acceleration and I learnt that centrifugal force (outward force) is a psuedo force. It doesn't really exist.
Now suppose I am going round in my car or a merry go ...
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Clarification on circular motion and pseudo-forces [duplicate]
The way i interpret pseudo-forces is that its a mathematical correction that makes the conclusion of the observer in an accelerated frame correct.
And I also believe that this "pseudo-force" has no ...
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Centrifugal force intuitive explanation [duplicate]
I would like to know if centrifugal force is only apparent why all the objects in a washing macchine are pressed against the "wall"? I can experience the effects of the centrifugal force even if I am ...
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Intuition of centrifugal force [duplicate]
I heard that centrifugal force does not really exist; that it is made as opposite substance to centripetal force. Is it true? Could someone define for me what centrifugal force is in terms of vectors ...
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Does gravity CAUSE the bending of spacetime, or IS gravity the bending of spacetime?
In reading these discussions I often see these two different definitions assumed. Yet they are very different. Which is correct: Does gravity CAUSE the bending of spacetime, or IS gravity the ...
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Why do the steel balls in a spinning curved stand climb up?
I made a classical experiment to demonstrate centrifugal force. The experimental setup is made to stand vertically and spun along the vertical axis. The balls that initially rest at the bottom, on ...
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Do we really not know why atoms 'decide' to produce a photon?
I was watching the Cosmos documentary where Neil deGrasse Tyson explained how certain energy photons get absorbed by an atom, which causes the electrons of that atom to climb into a higher energy ...
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Do centripetal and reactive centrifugal forces cancel each other out?
In order for a body to move with uniform velocity in a circular path, there must exist some force towards the centre of curvature of the circular path. This is centripetal force. By Newton's Third Law,...
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How to make a boy fall from the merry-go-round?
I want to make this boy fall in the game and not able to figure out a way or formula which is responsible to make this boy fall from merry go round
We know centrifugal force and centrifugal force ...
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Quantum mechanical origin of pseudo forces
I am thinking about this from quite some time but could not come up with any satisfactory explanation. In a nutshell, how would one explain the pseudo forces felt by non-inertial observers given that ...
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How do we feel fictitious forces?
Fictitious forces arise because of the acceleration of the frame of reference itself. No real forces act on the object, still the object accelerates.
So why it is said that if the earth were to ...
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Why is the moon in free fall? Isn't there a centrifugal force acting on it? [duplicate]
An object is in free fall when the force acting on it is exclusively gravitational. But why then is the moon in free fall? Isn't there a centrifugal force acting on it?
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