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says...
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. :-)
...lew...


An ME degree for me from Tufts University in 1974, though all BS
candidates took the same freshman physics course in the physics
department. The chairman of the dept, a Nobel laureate, was the lecturer
for the class and had been for many years. Long enough that he had
developed a habit of pacing the stage of the lecture hall, pausing at
one end each time he made a lap to hang his hand on a hook in the wall.
It was tradition for someone to remove the hook a few weeks into the
semester, completely throwing off the rhythm of the lecture. The hook
would be back in place for the next class.

Ned Simmons