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I regularly use the longer, but more precise, phrase "the sum of the
forces in the centripetal direction".
Daniel Crowe
Loudoun Academy of Science
dan.crowe@loudoun.k12.va.us
korsunskyb@mail.weston.org 09/23/07 1:59 PM >>>
... which is just another argument for banishing the expression
"centripetal force" from the English language...
:-)
Boris Korsunsky, EdD
Physics Teacher
Weston High School
voice 781-529-8030 x 7609
korsunbo@post.harvard.edu
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