Fictitious forces

Ficitious Forces are frame dependent forces that arise from being in a non-inertial frame of reference. The two most common ficitious forces are the coriolis force and the centrifugal force, found in rotating frames of reference, such as the Earth. While ficitious forces have the same physical effects as other forces in the non-inertial frame, they are distinguishable from the others in that they do not appear to exist from the point of view of an inertial observer. In general relativity the equivalence principle demands that there are no prefered frames of reference, and consequently that ficitious forces be treated in exactly the same manner as other forces.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia article. Browse Wikipedia for more information.