Re: heat, centrifugal force, etc.

["John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

Bob Sciamanda wrote:

> When I teach Newtonian mechanics, I preach the Newtonian Force concept: a
> frame invariant interaction between objects.  I therefore speak only of
> centrifugal *effects* ( and Coriolis *effects*), never of
> centrifugal/Coriolis *forces*.

Do you also (in the name of consistency) forbid speaking of
gravitational forces?

From a modern-physics point of view, gravity and centrifugity
are profoundly analogous.

http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/motion.html#sec-centrifuge

(I suppose you could arbitrarily choose a viewpoint that
includes gravity while excluding centrifugity, but that
would be pure arbitrariness, not physics.  Don't be
surprised if other folks choose differently.)