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Re: non-inertial frames

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Paul Camp wrote:

...
Forces are interactions between objects and necessarily come in
pairs. If you can't identify the other object (and you can't with a
centrifugal "force") then it ain't there. It is an effect, not a
force.
...


A deep, resounding reverberating YES -- and we even have a name for
those mysterious "effects" that appear in noninertial frames; they
are called (surprise,surprise) "accelerations."

A. R. Marlow E-MAIL: marlow@beta.loyno.edu
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