November 26th, 2003, 11:19 PM
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Re: Thoughts about sphere worlds
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Originally posted by Omnicron1:
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about centriFugal force (someone said Centripetal and thats the opposite) not being a good artificial gravity...
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See for example THIS page about "Centrifugal" vs. "Centripetal", which says, in part:
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For those who don't know, when you are in a rotating space colony, your feet exert a centrifugal force on the floor, whereas the floor exerts a centripetal force on your feet. Hence, artificial gravity as regards a force on your body is a centripetal force. They're equal and opposite forces of the same phenomenon. Your feet exert the centrifugal force onto the floor of a rotating space colony.
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