Centrifugal force: A gedanken experiment

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Jul 1994

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Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics), Volume 50, Issue 1, July 1994, pp.98-103

Physics

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Special Relativity, Fundamental Problems And General Formalism, Relativity And Gravitation, Pulsars

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A simple gedanken experiment, the motion of a bead inside a rotating linear pipe, is considered. It is shown that at large enough velocities a centrifugal force acting on the bead changes its usual sign and attracts towards the rotation axis. The motion of the bead is oscillatory, resembling a well-known case of the mathematical pendulum. A possible relevance of this highly idealized problem to the real motion of charged particles in a pulsar magnetosphere is pointed out.

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