Centripetal Force
Resources
- Amusement parks
- Amusement Ride Safety: G-Forces. International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA).
- Committee F24 on Amusement Rides and Devices. American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
- Institue for Centrifugal Research(ICR). Gravity is a mistake. We work hard to correct it.
- free body diagrams
- Free-body diagrams revisited — I. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37 No. 7 (1999): 427–433.
- LM1–LM18: Linear Motion
- CM1–CM9: Circular Motion
- Exercises in drawing and utilizing free-body diagrams. Kurt Fisher.The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37 No. 7 (1999): 434–435.
- #01–06: Linear Motion
- Free-body diagrams. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 31 No. 2 (1993): 104–108.
- #01–19: Linear Motion
- #20–28: Circular Motion
- #29–32: Simple Harmonic Motion
- Free-body diagrams revisited — I. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37 No. 7 (1999): 427–433.
- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica(Mathematical Principles of Natural Phiolosopy). Isaac Newton (5 July 1687).
- Google Books. Latin First Edition. 1687.
- Google Books. Latin Third Edition. 1833.
- The Internet Archive. First American Edition. Translated by Andrew Motte (1729).
- Human centrifuge
- Naval Air Warfare Center/Naval Air Development Center. Home of the first human centrifuge.
- patents
- Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force. George and Charlotte Blonsky. US Patent 3,216,423 (1965).
- Weapon for centrifugal propulsion of projectiles. Charles W. St. George. US Patent 6,520,169 (2003).
- ringworld
(paid link) - Ringworld. Larry Niven Wiki
- Larry Niven's Ringworld. Interactive Flash animation of Larry Niven's Ringworld by R. Dennis Antinori
- Ringworld [extended version]. Fan art by Simon Terrey (2010). YouTube
- space stations
- Space Colony Art from the 1970s. Compiled by Bryan Yager. NASA Ames Research Center
- Spacehabs by Brian Versteeg
- NASA Space Settlement Design Contest
- Video on demand
- Bob Hoover in his Aero Commander Shrike, BBC. Near the end of the clip, Bob Hoover pours a glass of tea while doing a barrel roll. Not a drop is spilled.
- Lion Riding Wall of Death. British Pathé (1934). Most unusual example of centripetal/centrifugal force ever seen.