By now you have heard me say many times that Newton’s laws of motion are applicable only in inertial (nonaccelerated) frames of reference. The question arises: How do we deal with motion in an accelerated reference frame? After all, most real reference frames are accelerating and, for many of them, the acceleration cannot be neglected. Since we live on the surface of a large rotating sphere, it is important for us to be able to solve physics problems in noninertial systems.
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