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The forces of inertial oscillations
Author(s) -
Early Jeffrey J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.1917
Subject(s) - inertial frame of reference , observer (physics) , tangent , classical mechanics , physics , inertial wave , fictitious force , surface (topology) , mechanics , particle (ecology) , geodesy , mathematics , geology , geometry , optics , mechanical wave , longitudinal wave , oceanography , quantum mechanics , wave propagation
By starting with a free particle and successively adding constraints, it is shown that the free motion of a particle constrained to the Earth's surface is inertial, despite statements in the literature to the contrary, and that an observer on this particle would not measure a force tangent to the Earth's surface. However, if the observer extended his measurements to include the direction normal to the Earth's surface then he would detect an oscillating force. Copyright © 2012 Royal Meteorological Society