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The Coriolis Force and the Rattleback

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Scientific Paper
TitleThe Centrifugal Force and the Rattleback
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Author(s)David Tombe
Keywordsforce, angular momentum
Published2010
JournalGeneral Science Journal
No. of pages3

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Abstract

The rattleback (Celtic Stone) is the most mysterious phenomenon in classical mechanics. It reverses its angular momentum by inducing a Coriolis pressure from the dense background sea of rotating electron-positron dipoles which is the medium for the propagation of light.