I read in HC Verma that if we are observing the motion of a body from a rotating frame and the body under the observation is NOT in motion with respect to our frame then the centrifugal force is the sufficient pseudo force for the analysis of the motion. But if the body under observation is in motion with respect to our frame than some extra pseudo forces other than centrifugal forces are required for the analysis of the motion of the object in our frame. Please explain this additional pseudo force's reason and details.
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I show you a typical situation where the centrifugal force is not enough to explain the dynamics.
Suppose the reference frame K is rotating around the z axis of an inertial reference frame K0 with ω=Ωez and Ω>0 constant.
Consider a point of matter P at rest in K0 far from the origin. In K, that point is seen rotating with ω′=−Ωez (as the rotation is around that fixed axis we can identify the axes ez and the corresponding e′z at rest in K).
If m is the mass of p, the motion in K needs a centripetal force: F=−mΩ2→OP.(1) This force can only be due to pseudoforces, as no real force acts on P (or, equivalently, the sum of real forces acting on P vanishes), since P stays at rest in the inertial reference frame K0. However, if only the centrifugal pseudoforce were present it would not be enough as it is: fcentrifugal=+mΩ2→OP. To fulfil (1) another force with inverse direction and double magnitude is necessary.
It is the Coriolis' (pseudo)force: fCoriolis=−2mω×vP, where ω is the angular velocity of K with respect to K0 and vP is the velocity of P in K. One has: vP=−ω×→OP=−Ωez×→OP. Therefore: fCoriolis=2mΩ2ez×(ez×→OP)=−2mΩ2→OP, so that fCoriolis+fcentrifugal=−mΩ2→OP as requested by (1).
Dropping the requirement of uniform rotation, and assuming that ω of K respect to K0 is arbitrary and that K may also translate with respect to K0, the complete set of pseudoforces acting on a point P in K is given by the following added four terms (the third one is noting but the centrifugal force written into a more general form): −maO−mω×(ω×→PO)−2mω×vP−m˙ω×→OP, where aO is the acceleration of the origin O of K0 computed in K, vP is the velocity of P in K, ˙ω is the time derivative of ω, which is, as before, the angular velocity of K in K0.
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