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Past exam of the theoretical mechanics course of the University of Oxford 2011 B 4 a Solution by
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Let rotate vectors from the rotating frame to the inertial frame. For any rotating-frame vector , differentiating adds to . Thus an inertial particle velocity is , and, for constant angular velocity, its acceleration isInsert this into the inertial Euler equations and express forces in the rotating coordinates. This givesThe additional terms are the Coriolis acceleration and the centripetal term associated with frame rotation. There is no angular-acceleration term because is constant.
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