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  2. Fictitious force - Wikipedia

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    A fictitious force is a force that appears to act on a mass whose motion is described using a non-inertial frame of reference, such as a linearly accelerating or rotating reference frame. [1] Fictitious forces are invoked to maintain the validity and thus use of Newton's second law of motion, in frames of reference which are not inertial. [2]

  3. List of fictitious people - Wikipedia

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    Fictitious people are nonexistent people, who, unlike fictional characters, have been claimed to actually exist. Usually this is done as a practical joke or hoax, but sometimes fictitious people are 'created' as part of a fraud. A pseudonym may also be considered by some to be a "fictitious person", although this is not the correct definition.

  4. Category:Fictitious forces - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fictitious forces" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. List of impostors - Wikipedia

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    However, their purpose was rarely for fraudulent gain. They are listed in the List of wartime cross-dressers. Spies have often pretended to be people other than they were. One famous case was that of Chevalier d'Eon (1728–1810), a French diplomat who successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman.

  6. Coriolis force - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial (or fictitious) force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame. In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the force acts to the left of the motion of the object. In one with anticlockwise (or counterclockwise) rotation, the force ...

  7. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    However, the fictitious forces can be of arbitrary size. For example, in an Earth-bound reference system (where the earth is represented as stationary), the fictitious force (the net of Coriolis and centrifugal forces) is enormous and is responsible for the Sun orbiting around the Earth. This is due to the large mass and velocity of the Sun ...

  8. Coriolis effect (perception) - Wikipedia

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    The Coriolis force was discovered by Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis in 1832. By the end of the 19th century, Coriolis force had become a common phrase in meteorological literature. [ 23 ] Coriolis force is classified as a fictitious force in rotating reference frames.

  9. List of fictional dictators - Wikipedia

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    Leader of Soviet forces in an alternative universe involving a war between the western Allied forces and the Soviets, he is accompanied by his companion Yuri, who later betrays him by killing him. However, Romanov returns to life after the commander of the Red Army travels back in time and stops Yuri. [44] Sauron: Mordor, Middle-Earth