| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Inertial force | Aerospace | A force is a given coordinate system arising from the inertia of a parcel moving with respect to another coordinate system. The inertial force is proportional and directionally opposite to the accelerating force. Also called inertia force. For example, the coriolis acceleration on a parcel moving with respect to a coordinate system fixed in space becomes an inertial force, the coriolis force, in a coordinate system rotating with the earth. (references) | |
| Inertial force | Space | A force which must be added to the equations of motion when Newton's laws are used in a rotating or otherwise accelerating frame of reference. Some call it a "fictional force" because when the same motion is solved in the frame of the "outside world&," these forces do not appear. (references) | |
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