Talk:Centrifugal force.html



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(Copied from Talk:Centrifugal force (rotating reference frame)

I did a google on 'centrifugal force', ignoring the wikipedia I got:

• [1] - talks about rotating reference frames
• [2] rotating reference frames
• [3] rotating reference frames
• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/corf.html[ rotating reference frames/mach principle
• [4] doesn't exist at all
• [5] rotating reference frame
• [6] copy of columbia encyclopedia reactive centrifugal force
• [7] dunno, vague "inertia"
• [8] rotating reference frame
• [9] spam
• [10] not specified, reactive?
• [11] fictitious doesn't really exist
• [12] rotating frames of reference

Feel free to check these to make sure I've classified them correctly, and do your own googles or other kinds of searches.- (User) WolfKeeper (Talk) 00:00, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

You say "3:2 isn't a consensus at all." Could you expand on that comment? Your views were in the minority, and yet you went ahead and made your change, so I pointed out that you couldn't justify your edit based on a clear consensus of the editors. Now your answer is to tell me that "3:2 isn't a consensus at all". I know it isn't a consensus, even less so for the 2 position than for the 3 position, and yet you implemented an edit based on the 2 position. How do you justify this?

As to your web search results, you unfortunately overlooked one or two, such as

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/classical/inverse_square.pdf

http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~pat/fun/NEWT3D/PDF/CORIOLIS.PDF

http://www-math.mit.edu/~djk/18_022/chapter02/section04.html

http://www.phy.umist.ac.uk/~mikeb/lecture/pc167/gravity/central.html

http://www.cbu.edu/~jholmes/P380/CentralForce.doc

http://www.myoops.org/twocw/mit/NR/rdonlyres/Mechanical-Engineering/2-141Fall-2002/1BEBB815-1441-4698-8D09-3C0E378291F3/0/spring_pendulum.pdf

This is just from about 60 seconds worth of browsing. All of these explicitly present as "centrifugal force" the term arising from the basis vectors changing in space, e.g., stationary spherical, cylindrical, polar, parabolic coordinates. I also found a cite that carefully stated centrifugal force appears only in rotating coordinates, and then proceded to derive the centrifugal force in terms of stationary polar coordinates, so one has to be careful to distinguish what people think they are doing from what they are actually doing.

Careful here. I just gave the top-hits from google, because it's the most unbiased way I know to quickly get a feel for what most people think on a subject (using multiple search engines would improve this further). Clearly there are a variety of views, but the majority are to do with rotating reference frames. Absolutely, absolutely you can come up with many references that talk about other ways of dealing with it, but rotating reference frames seems to be the most common, and this is compatible with the wikipedia's article layout. Your links above don't deal with the commonality angle at all.- (User) WolfKeeper (Talk) 15:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

So based on this, the redirect is currently pointed at Centrifugal force (rotating reference frame)- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 16:32, 25 September 2008 (UTC)