Coriolis forse and cylindrical co-ordinates

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Pseudo forces, such as Coriolis and centripetal forces, arise from the acceleration of a rotating frame. In a cylindrical coordinate system, while centripetal acceleration can be computed directly, understanding Coriolis force requires knowledge of the object's velocity relative to the rotating frame. The confusion stems from the fact that Coriolis force is dependent on this velocity, not just the frame's acceleration. Therefore, calculating acceleration in cylindrical coordinates alone does not provide a complete picture of Coriolis effects. A comprehensive analysis must consider both the frame's acceleration and the object's velocity.
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Pseudo forses arising in a frame are defined as the negative of mass times acceleration of the frame used. now in cylindrical coordinate system if we compute acceleration, we should be able to know completely the corilis and centripetel forses.
However my problem is I don't understand how can we know coriolis forse by computing acceleration in cylindrical system since it (coriolis forse) involves velocity of the object, w.r.t. the rotating frame, and is independent of the frame whose acceleration we are computing using cylindrical co-ordinate system.
 
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The acceleration of the frame is centripetal.
 
mritunjay said:
I don't understand how can we know coriolis forse by computing acceleration in cylindrical system since it (coriolis forse) involves velocity of the object, w.r.t. the rotating frame …

Hi mritunjay! :smile:

Pseudo (fictional) forces are inertial forces, meaning that the acceleration due to an inertial force is independent of the mass.

But it can depend on velocity.
 
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