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jumbogala
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Homework Statement
I'm doing a problem in which an ant crawls in a circle on a spinning pottery wheel.
Say I'm looking at the friction which holds the ant in place. It keeps the ant from slipping.
Looking at it in the inertial frame of reference, I know that the centripetal force points towards the center so friction must pull the ant out, away from the center.
But in the non inertial frame, is the frictional force the same one as before? Like in magnitude and direction, or does it change? Also, how do you know which direction it acts?
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The Attempt at a Solution
I'm not sure. I don't think the frictional force is the same, because it's now a force within the rotating reference frame. But I'm not sure why, because the "real" forces (the ones that are due to interactions) should not change whether we are looking at it from an outsider's POV or the ant's.
Please tell me if this should go in advanced physics instead.