Centrifugal force does exist, it just requires you to recast newtons laws in a rotating frame of reference.
relevant xkcd
[url]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png[/url]
[QUOTE=themooselord;51509919]Centrifugal force does exist, it just requires you to recast newtons laws in a rotating frame of reference.
relevant xkcd
[url]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png[/url][/QUOTE]
Nah. If I'm spinning in space, I'd measure everything around me as being subject to a really weird force. That's not a force, that's just me picking a bad reference frame.
Sweet. Learned something new, and no existential crisis either.
[QUOTE=themooselord;51509919]Centrifugal force does exist, it just requires you to recast newtons laws in a rotating frame of reference.
relevant xkcd
[url]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png[/url][/QUOTE]
Non-inertial reference frames aren't "correct" though
Wow -_-
You learn something new everyday
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