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2. Fictitious force - Wikipedia

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   A fictitious force is a force that appears to act on a mass whose motion is described using a non-inertial frame of reference, such as a linearly accelerating or rotating reference frame. [1] Fictitious forces are invoked to maintain the validity and thus use of Newton's second law of motion , in frames of reference which are not inertial.

3. Coriolis force - Wikipedia

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   In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black ball moves in a straight line. However, the observer (red dot) who is standing in the rotating/non-inertial frame of reference (lower part of the picture) sees the object as following a curved path due to the Coriolis and centrifugal forces present in this frame.

4. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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   Centrifugal force is a fictitious force in Newtonian mechanics (also called an "inertial" or "pseudo" force) that appears to act on all objects when viewed in a rotating frame of reference. It is directed radially away from the axis of rotation.

5. Rotating reference frame - Wikipedia

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   e. A rotating frame of reference is a special case of a non-inertial reference frame that is rotating relative to an inertial reference frame. An everyday example of a rotating reference frame is the surface of the Earth. (This article considers only frames rotating about a fixed axis. For more general rotations, see Euler angles.)

6. Non-inertial reference frame - Wikipedia

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   e. A non-inertial reference frame (also known as an accelerated reference frame[1]) is a frame of reference that undergoes acceleration with respect to an inertial frame. [2] An accelerometer at rest in a non-inertial frame will, in general, detect a non-zero acceleration. While the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames, in non ...

7. Euler force - Wikipedia

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   Euler force. In classical mechanics, the Euler force is the fictitious tangential force [1] that appears when a non-uniformly rotating reference frame is used for analysis of motion and there is variation in the angular velocity of the reference frame 's axes. The Euler acceleration (named for Leonhard Euler), also known as azimuthal ...

8. Inertial frame of reference - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. In classical physics and special relativity, an inertial frame of reference (also called inertial space, or Galilean reference frame) is a stationary or uniformly moving frame of reference. Observed relative to such a frame, objects exhibit inertia, that is, remain at rest until acted upon by external forces, and the laws of nature can ...

9. Frame of reference - Wikipedia

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   t. e. In physics and astronomy, a frame of reference (or reference frame) is an abstract coordinate system whose origin, orientation, and scale are specified by a set of reference points ― geometric points whose position is identified both mathematically (with numerical coordinate values) and physically (signaled by conventional markers). [1]