Re: accerelation due to gravity

[Jim Ealy <Jim_Ealy@RCDS.RYE.NY.US>]

PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu writes:
> Some considerable time after introducing weight in this manner it is to
> be shown that weight has a centrifugal force component on Earth's surface
> and in the orbiting shuttle. The latter is larger, that's all.
>
> Leigh


I did not know you moved since we last "locked horns......."  How do you
like SFU compared to NJ?  No need to reply!   However,  I am curious why
you use the term centrifugal force - isn't this fictitious  force the
result of inertia?  I and my students have been really educated with this
thread.

jim ealy
Education by Demonstration