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Re: [Phys-L] rotating frames

Alas on 03/03/2014 03:16 PM, I wrote:
Beware that it is easy to find grievously wrong discussions
of rotating-frame physics. The usual hand-wavy approach
gets the wrong answer for the centrifugal field, wrong by
a factor of 2.

Here's what I meant to say:

Beware that it is easy to find grievously wrong discussions
of rotating-frame physics. The usual hand-wavy approach
gets the wrong answer for the Coriolis force, wrong by
a factor of 2. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sorry.