Abstract
Rotating observers and circular test particle orbits in Minkowski spacetime are used to illustrate the transport laws and derivative operators needed to define the various “inertial forces” one can introduce using the natural relative observer approach to describing spacetime. Various centripetal accelerations (often called centrifugal forces when multiplied by the mass) are evaluated and compared with the familiar value υ 2 / γ of nonrelativistic physics.
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Bini, D., Jantzen, R.T. (2004). Inertial Forces: The Special Relativistic Assessment. In: Rizzi, G., Ruggiero, M.L. (eds) Relativity in Rotating Frames. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 135. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0528-8_13
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