Re: [Phys-l] Space Balloon

["Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@winbeam.com>]

For about 40 years I have done this demo with both hooded candle flames and 
tethered bobs in water.  On a rotating platform, both the flames and the 
bobs move inward toward the axis of rotation. This is not a slight effect. 
It is obvious to the casual observer, even at a quite slow rpm of rotation. 
Linear acceleration of the platform produces confirming results.

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (Em)
http://www.winbeam.com/~trebor/
trebor@winbeam.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Whatcott" <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Space Balloon


> . . .
> This note is not intended to be cynical, but I ponder, in view of
> the scattered  views on blobs and balloons in spacecraft, just
> what the considered response of the readership would be?
>
> For myself: I can see that if the draft-proofing were all but perfect,
>  the flame would still move in a particular way when the rotor spins.
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> Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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