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  2. History of centrifugal and centripetal forces - Wikipedia

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    Since the centrifugal force of the parts of the earth, arising from the earth's diurnal motion, which is to the force of gravity as 1 to 289, raises the waters under the equator to a height exceeding that under the poles by 85472 Paris feet, as above, in Prop. XIX., the force of the sun, which we have now shewed to be to the force of gravity as ...

  3. Wilbur R. Franks - Wikipedia

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    Franks had noted that his test tubes often broke when subjected to severe centrifugal force. He had solved the problem by first inserting them into larger and stronger liquid-filled bottles. In 1940, the anti gravity suit was developed under the name Franks Flying Suit by Wilbur R. Franks and his colleagues at the Banting and Best Medical ...

  4. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, in an inertial frame, the observed effects arise as a consequence of the inertia and the known forces without the need to introduce a centrifugal force. Based on this argument, the privileged frame, wherein the laws of physics take on the simplest form, is a stationary frame in which no fictitious forces need to be invoked.

  5. Einstein's thought experiments - Wikipedia

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    By 1912, Einstein had become convinced of a close relationship between gravitation and pseudo-forces such as centrifugal force: Such a system K , according to the equivalence principle, is strictly equivalent to a system at rest in which a matter-free static gravitational field of a certain kind exists.

  6. History of gravitational theory - Wikipedia

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    Thus, centrifugal force thrusts relatively light matter away from the central vortices of celestial bodies, lowering density locally and thereby creating centripetal pressure. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] Using aspects of this theory, between 1669 and 1690, Christiaan Huygens designed a mathematical vortex model.

  7. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    The book is the earliest known scientific treatment of the subject, and at the time the most coherent presentation of a mathematical approach to games of chance. Two years later Huygens derived geometrically the now standard formulae in classical mechanics for the centripetal-and centrifugal force in his work De vi Centrifuga (1659).

  8. 5 flops from the world's most famous inventors - AOL

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    A bad one. In 2002, the BBC wrote that Leonardo da Vinci made sure his war inventions would fail, possibly because he identified as a pacifist. But because he made his living sketching out ...

  9. Tesla turbine - Wikipedia

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    One proposed application for the device is a waste pump, in factories and mills where normal vane-type turbine pumps typically become fouled. Applications of the Tesla turbine as a multiple-disk centrifugal blood pump have yielded promising results due to the low peak shear force. [ 17 ]