Re: Coriolis, etc.

[guntbert@borg-6.borg-graz.ac.at (Guntbert Reiter)]

*"Re: Coriolis, etc."*
A. R. Marlow wrote on Thu, 25 Apr 1996 20:53:26 +0000 (GMT) :

> > ... Likewise, a man in a
> > windowless, accelerating rocket ship is perfectly correct, in a

> ship, and finds a downward directed force, then all is well.  But it
> must be strongly emphasized that the means used to measure forces are
> totally different from the means used to measure accelerations, and

Can you give some examples? What does a spring measure? And how
do you measure the 'kinmatic' quantity "acceleration",
(d^2s/dt^2) when in YOUR frame of reference (the rocket) there IS
none (assuming rigid bodies), because everything is well fixed?

Bye, bye
	Guntbert
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