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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. [2]

  3. Coriolis force - Wikipedia

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    The fictitious forces as they are perceived in the rotating frame act as additional forces that contribute to the apparent acceleration just like the real external forces. [17] [18] [19] The fictitious force terms of the equation are, reading from left to right: [20]

  4. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    t. e. 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 appears to be directed radially away from the axis of rotation of the frame.

  5. Reaction (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The case of any number of forces acting on the same object is covered by considering the sum of all forces. A possible cause of this problem is that the third law is often stated in an abbreviated form: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, [8] without the details, namely that these forces act on two different objects ...

  6. Inertial frame of reference - Wikipedia

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    Bodies in non-inertial reference frames are subject to so-called fictitious forces (pseudo-forces); that is, forces that result from the acceleration of the reference frame itself and not from any physical force acting on the body. Examples of fictitious forces are the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force in rotating reference frames. To ...

  7. D'Alembert's principle - Wikipedia

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    The inertial force must act through the center of mass and the inertial torque can act anywhere. The system can then be analyzed exactly as a static system subjected to this "inertial force and moment" and the external forces. The advantage is that in the equivalent static system one can take moments about any point (not just the center of mass).

  8. Category:Fictitious forces - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fictitious forces". The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. Mechanics of planar particle motion - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Mechanics of planar particle motion[1] is the analysis of the motion of particles gravitationally attracted to one another which are observed from non-inertial reference frames [2][3][4] and the generalization of this problem to planetary motion. [5] This type of analysis is closely related to centrifugal force, two-body problem, orbit ...