Fictitious force Definition and 21 Threads

I have a difficulty in understanding the question. Fictitious force is a force whose motion is described using a non-inertial frame of reference. Which frame is the question referring to?

Why does a body experience a fictitious force when placed over an object which is accelerating ? I mean why it doesn't just accelerate with an object... What's actually happening?

Let's suppose there's some platform that is rotating with angular speed omega and has a radius R. At t=0 we release some object from the border, which has an initial speed perpendicular to the radius direction with magnitude \omega R and we want to know its position at t=T with respect to the...

Hello I have learned about conservation of momentum, Newton's law (1st, 2nd, 3rd law + free body diagram), conservation of energy and finding center of mass of several 2 D and 3 D shapes (non - calculus method). I watched youtube video about two objects connected by horizontal spring and in...

Take some sort of system accelerating with respect to an inertial reference frame: let's take a spherical mass on the end of a string forming a simple pendulum with the ceiling of a car, and allow that car to accelerate uniformly. Could someone share with me how they interpret the concept of a...

If a suspended pendulum bob is accelerated (in a car, for example), if you're in the accelerating frame of reference, you will observe the fictitious force which appears to act on the bob (as you're in the accelerating frame, the bob is not 'moving' so to speak, so to establish equilibrium you...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I understand the solution of the problem, but I want to know why don't my approach work. I didn't change the frame of reference. I use the regular method of solving a torque problem. (mgsinθ - mAcosθ)(L/2) = mL2/3 θ'' which is...

Hi all, I was reviewing the Coriolis effect and I came across the attached explanatory image (from the Italian version of a book on physics by Cutnell, Johnson, Young and Stadler). The idea is the following. two guys are facing each other on a rotating carousel; one of the guys on the throws...

In this video, a man applies an angular acceleration to the base of a rod. While the rod rotates, it bends. Why? What force is there that causes the bending, aside from rod's own weight? It seems to me to be the work of a fictitious inertial force. I was always taught that those forces don't...

I have been asked by someone if it is true that in general, for a constantly accelerating reference frame, i.e. a non-inertial reference frame, the acceleration of a particle (as observed in this frame) due to the corresponding fictitious force is independent of its mass. My response was yes...

If gravity is a fictitious force, why some scientists try to unify it with other real forces of nature?

After reading many questions, , I wonder: is it possible to consider also the other fundamental forces, the electroweak interaction and the strong interaction or ultimately the unification of these, to be fictitious forces like gravity in the framework of general relativity? If we want a final...

Homework Statement Depending on the college or university, this may be a 2nd or 3rd year question. For me, it is a junior-level course. A train is heading due south through Edmonton at a speed of 300 m/s relative to the surface. Edmonton has a latitude of 53.5 degrees; the Earth has a radius...

Hello. Before I ask a question I want you to remind that it is my first time to use this page. And I am not even good at speaking english. My question is about the fictitious forces. I have made a long proof for the formula of the force in the non-inertial reference frame with the second law of...

This discussion started as a side clarification of something in this thread https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3971013#post3971013 and although tangentially related it probably deserves a thread of its own so anyone can participate without reservations. Please keep in mind I am not...

I'm really confused on this concept. Why is gravity considered a fictitious force and is it true that this concept is only valid in quantum physics? Thanks.

It is standard pedagogy in our educational system to teach centrifugal force is a fictitious force, a force that arises within a non-inertial, rotating reference frame. High school students, for example, are brainwashed in believing this. Brainwashed because it perpetuates a false dogma about...

can someone tell me how to distinguish fictitious and real force, together with the correlation of fictitious acceleartion and real acceleration, my research seems to fail on this subject

[SOLVED] What is fictitious force? Hi. I was wondering if someone would be able to explain to me what is meant by fictitious force? I know that it is a force that acts on masses in a non-inertial frame of reference. That is to say, the motion of the car from the view of the driver, for...

[SOLVED] Fictitious force and accelerating airplane Homework Statement The question asks me to draw a free body diagram for a person standing in an accelerating airplane, and to indicate the fictitious force and any real forces acting on them. The airplane accelerates at 2.22 m/s^2...

Can Fictitious Force Become Real ? Centrifugal force is considered as a fictitious force. For an object of m mass, it is given by F_{centrifugal} = - m \vec{a}_{centripetal} = \frac{mv^2}{r} \hat{r} The fictitiousness comes from the use of a noninertial rotating coordinate system for...