Myles wrote:
On Mar 20, 1:32 am, The Real Doctor wrote:

... My engineering dynamics professor at UC, Berkeley was adamant in
opposing the perpetuation of the centrifugal force myth. It's phony
physics and can lead to seriously erroneous conclusions.

Yeah, yeah, centrifugal force is a reaction to a centripetal force, I
know the difference,.... I don't care. The layman understands the former
term and not the latter. To the typical student, I'll use the term
"centrifugal". If he's a physicist, I'll say "centripetal". :-)

Tony V.