Saturday, July 2, 2016

Distinguishing real forces and fictitious/pseudo forces in Newtonian mechanics



In understanding the law of inertia I had to consider the motion of bodies screened from the so called "real forces".




  • What characterises these real forces?




  • What makes us call them real?




  • Or what is separating the forces called true or real from another group of forces called fictitious/pseudo forces?





Many forces called true are also invisible just like the centripetal force or other pseudo forces.



  • Then what is making them special and different?




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