M3 · Non-inertial frames
A 19-module path through m3 · non-inertial frames, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Non-inertial reference frames
- Fictitious (inertial) forces
- Linearly accelerating frames
- Equivalence of uniform acceleration and gravity
- Time derivatives in rotating frames
- Angular velocity vector of a rotating frame
- Transformation of velocity between rotating frames
- Transformation of acceleration in rotating frames
- Centrifugal force
- Coriolis force
- Euler force
- Effective gravity on the rotating Earth
- Equatorial bulge and the figure of the Earth
- Deflection of falling bodies
- Coriolis effects on horizontal motion
- Foucault pendulum
- Foucault precession rate and latitude dependence
- Parallel transport interpretation of Foucault precession
- Larmor-Coriolis analogy