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Forces

Forces

(CC) Image: John R. Brews Force and its equivalent force and couple     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Centripetal force FC upon an object held in circular motion by a string of length R. The string is under tension FT, as shown separately to the left.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Upper panel: Ball on a banked circular track moving with constant speed v; Lower panel: Forces on the ball.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Polar unit vectors at two times t and t + dt for a particle with trajectory r ( t ); on the left the unit vectors uρ and uθ at the two times are moved so their tails all meet, and are shown to trace an arc of a unit radius circle.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Local coordinate system for planar motion on a curve.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Exploded view of rotating spheres in an inertial frame of reference showing the centripetal forces on the spheres provided by the tension in a rope tying them together.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Rotating spheres subject to centrifugal (outward) force in a co-rotating frame in addition to the (inward) tension from the rope.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews The "whirling table". The rod is made to rotate about the axis and (from the bead's viewpoint) the centrifugal force acting on the sliding bead is balanced by the weight attached by a cord over two pulleys.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Force diagram for an element of water surface in co-rotating frame.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews An object located at xA in inertial frame A is located at location xB in accelerating frame B.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews An orbiting but fixed orientation coordinate system B, shown at three different times.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews An orbiting coordinate system B in which unit vectors uj, j = 1, 2, 3 rotate to face the rotational axis.     Crossing a rotating carousel walking at constant speed, a spiral is traced out in the inertial frame, while a simple straight radial path is seen in the frame of the carousel.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Rotating shaft unbalanced by two identical attached weights. Image     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Torque vector T representing a force couple.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews An ellipsoid showing its axes     (PD) Image: John R. Brews While the pendulum P swings in a fixed plane about its hanger at H, the planes of the Earth observer rotate.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews As time progresses each unit vector's change is orthogonal to it.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Tossed ball on carousel. At the center of the carousel, the path is a straight line for a stationary observer, and is an arc for a rotating observer.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews From the center of curvature of the path, the ball executes approximate circular motion.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Some useful notation for the ball toss on a carousel.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews The ball follows a nearly circular path about the center of curvature.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews The inertial forces on the ball combine to provide the resultant centripetal force required by Newton's laws for circular motion.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Stats for a particular path of ball toss.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Tangent-plane coordinate system on rotating Earth at latitude φ.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Wind motion in direction of pressure gradient is deflected by the Coriolis force.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews In the northern hemisphere, Coriolis force forms a counterclockwise flow.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews Path of ball for four rates of rotation. Catcher positioned so the catch is made at 12 o'clock in all cases.     (PD) Image: John R. Brews A fluid forced through a rocking tube experiences a Coriolis acceleration.