Author:
Tombe, Frederick David
Category:
Research Papers
Sub-Category:
Mathematical Physics
Date Published:
May 31, 2022
Keywords:
centrifugal force, inertial forces, geometry, gravity
Abstract:
The modern teaching is that centrifugal force only exists as a fictitious force in a rotating frame of reference, and that the only force acting in an inertial frame of reference when a body undergoes circular motion is an inward acting centripetal force. On the contrary however, it is here proposed that a rotating frame of reference, rather than creating a fictitious centrifugal force, actually masks the existence of a very real inertial centripetal force that has gone unrecognized in the literature. When the books are correctly balanced, it will be demonstrated that centrifugal force is a real force, closely related to kinetic energy, and observable in any frame of reference.
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