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|    poraty6@gmail.com to Tom Roberts    |
|    Re: Circular motion without centripetal     |
|    15 Jan 19 08:48:05    |
      On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 10:26:30 AM UTC+2, Tom Roberts wrote:       > On 1/13/19 4:23 PM, Luigi Fortunati wrote:       > > Circular motion without centripetal force is impossible. And then we       > > must find a plausible explanation for this case. There is a rotating       > > table and a disc without friction. If a person in the laboratory       > > gently lays the disk on the rotating table and if the friction is       > > (really) 100% absent, the disk, in the absence of friction, can not       > > be dragged from the table, so it remains still while the table turns       > > downstairs without disturbing.       >       > Note the disk remains "still" relative to the inertial frame in which       > the center of the rotating table is at rest.In discussions like this you       > must always mention which frame or coordiantes you are using.       >       > > For the observer who rotates with the table, the disk travels around       > > a circle without ever moving away or nearing the center of rotation.       > >       > > How can we justify the rotary motion in the accelerated reference if       > > no centripetal force acts on the disc?       >       > In the rotating frame there must be a centripetal force: the disk is       > not "fleeing away from the center", so there must be a centripetal force       > to balance the (fictitious) "centrifugal force" in the rotating frame.       > Note this centripetal force is every bit as fictitious as the       > "centrifugal force" -- both are artifacts of using non-inertial coordinates.       ============================       artifacts ??!!              imagine a child standing in a buss       not holding anything to stabilize himself       now       the buss is making a very sharp turning movement              and the child is falling away towards the       outside direction of that circular movement       **AND IS GETTING HURT** (getting injuries!! )                     is that harmful accident is       ''fictitious ''??              TIA       Y.P       ===========================              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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