Ned Simmons wrote:

Were your courses taken in a physics or an engineering department? It'd
be interesting to see whether the the antis/pros tend to divide along
physics/engineering lines. The materials I looked at make me think this
would be the case. In general, physics references limited the definition
of force to the basic forces of nature (nuclear, electromagnetic,
gravitational), while engineering references based the definition on
F=ma. So to find a difference in the perception of centrifugal force
between engineers and physicists would not be surprising.

Ned Simmons


They were at Penn State in the Physics dept. I still have my text,
I think. I'll look it up if I do and supply the pertinent info.
I wanted Electronic engineering but the EE school was loaded
with power transmission and generation courses so I opted for
physics major with applicable EE courses. :-)
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