Editing Rotating reference frame (section)

==Fictitious forces==
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All [[non-inertial reference frame]]s exhibit [[fictitious force]]s; rotating reference frames are characterized by three:<ref name=Arnold>{{cite book |title=Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics |page=130 |author=Vladimir Igorević Arnolʹd |edition=2nd |isbn=978-0-387-96890-2 |date=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pd8-s6rOt_cC&q=%22additional+terms+called+inertial+forces.+This+allows+us+to+detect+experimentally%22&pg=PT149 |publisher=Springer}}</ref>

* the [[centrifugal force (fictitious)|centrifugal force]],
* the [[Coriolis force]],
and, for non-uniformly rotating reference frames,
* the [[Euler force]].

Scientists in a rotating box can measure the [[rotation speed]] and [[axis of rotation]] by measuring these fictitious forces.  For example, [[Léon Foucault]] was able to show the Coriolis force that results from Earth's rotation using the [[Foucault pendulum]].  If Earth were to rotate many times faster, these fictitious forces could be felt by humans, as they are when on a spinning [[carousel]].

===Centrifugal force===
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In [[classical mechanics]], ''centrifugal force'' is an outward force associated with [[rotation]]. Centrifugal force is one of several so-called [[pseudo-force]]s (also known as [[inertial force]]s), so named because, unlike [[Fundamental interaction|real forces]], they do not originate in interactions with other bodies situated in the environment of the particle upon which they act. Instead, centrifugal force originates in the rotation of the frame of reference within which observations are made.<ref>{{cite book |title=Physics |author=Robert Resnick |author2=David Halliday |name-list-style=amp |page=[https://archive.org/details/physics00resn/page/121 121] |date=1966 |url=https://archive.org/details/physics00resn |url-access=registration |publisher=Wiley |isbn=0-471-34524-5 }}</ref><!--
--><ref name=Marsden>{{cite book |title=Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry: A Basic Exposition of Classical Mechanical Systems |author=Jerrold E. Marsden |author2=Tudor S. Ratiu |isbn=0-387-98643-X |date=1999 |publisher=Springer |page=251 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2gH9ZIs-3AC&pg=PA251}}</ref><ref name=Taylor_A>{{cite book |title=Classical Mechanics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1kCtNr-pJsC&pg=PP1 |page=343 |author=John Robert Taylor |isbn=1-891389-22-X |publisher=University Science Books |date=2005}}</ref><ref name=Marion>{{cite book |title=Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems |author=Stephen T. Thornton |author2=Jerry B. Marion |name-list-style=amp |chapter=Chapter 10 |date=2004 |isbn=0-534-40896-6 |publisher=Brook/Cole |location=Belmont CA |edition=5th |oclc=52806908}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dlmcn.com/circle.html|title=Centrifugal and Coriolis Effects|author=David McNaughton|access-date=2008-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Frames of reference: The centrifugal force|url=http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Lframes2.htm|author=David P. Stern|access-date=2008-10-26}}</ref>

===Coriolis force===
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The mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by a French scientist [[Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis]] in connection with [[hydrodynamics]], and also in the [[Theory of tides|tidal equations]] of [[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] in 1778. Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with [[meteorology]].

Perhaps the most commonly encountered rotating reference frame is the [[Earth]]. Moving objects on the surface of the Earth experience a Coriolis force, and appear to veer to the right in the [[northern hemisphere]], and to the left in the [[southern hemisphere|southern]]. Movements of air in the atmosphere and water in the ocean are notable examples of this behavior: rather than flowing directly from areas of high pressure to low pressure, as they would on a non-rotating planet, winds and currents tend to flow to the right of this direction north of the [[equator]], and to the left of this direction south of the equator. This effect is responsible for the rotation of large [[Cyclone#Structure|cyclones]] <!--Don't add tornadoes here; the Coriolis effect is not directly responsible for tornadoes-->(see [[Coriolis effect#Meteorology|Coriolis effects in meteorology]]).

===Euler force===
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In [[classical mechanics]], the ''Euler acceleration'' (named for [[Leonhard Euler]]), also known as ''azimuthal acceleration''<ref name=Morin>{{cite book |author=David Morin |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontocl00mori |url-access=registration |quote=acceleration azimuthal Morin. |title=Introduction to classical mechanics: with problems and solutions |page= [https://archive.org/details/introductiontocl00mori/page/469 469] |isbn= 978-0-521-87622-3 |date=2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> or ''transverse acceleration''<ref name=Fowles>{{cite book |author=Grant R. Fowles|author2=George L. Cassiday|name-list-style=amp|title=Analytical Mechanics|edition=6th|page=178|date=1999|publisher=Harcourt College Publishers}}</ref>  is an [[acceleration]] that appears when a non-uniformly rotating reference frame is used for analysis of motion and there is variation in the [[angular velocity]] of the [[frame of reference|reference frame]]'s axis. This article is restricted to a frame of reference that rotates about a fixed axis.

The ''Euler force'' is a [[fictitious force]] on a body that is related to the Euler acceleration by ''' ''F'' '''&nbsp;=&nbsp;''m'''a''''', where ''' ''a'' ''' is the Euler acceleration and ''m'' is the mass of the body.<ref name=Battin>{{cite book |title=An introduction to the mathematics and methods of astrodynamics |page=102 |author= Richard H Battin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjH7aVhiGdcC&q=%22Euler+acceleration%22&pg=PA102
|isbn=1-56347-342-9 |date=1999 |publisher=[[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]] |location=Reston, VA   }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry: A Basic Exposition of Classical Mechanical Systems |author=Jerrold E. Marsden |author2=Tudor S. Ratiu |isbn=0-387-98643-X |date=1999 |publisher=Springer |page=251 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2gH9ZIs-3AC&pg=PP1}}</ref>