Honors: Centrifugal Force

Today we briefly talked about centrifugal force, which is a pseudoforce (fake force) but is still pretty cool. Centrifugal force appears if you have a rotating reference frame and is indistinguishable from gravity to a person inside that rotating reference frame. We watched a couple of clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey that show how a rotating reference frame could be used to create "artificial gravity."