Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > When you are actually _in_ a rotating frame, such as a car going around > a corner, you naturally "think" about the situation from the POV of that > frame, and in that frame, the centrifugal force -- and the Coriolis > force -- are both quite real, even though they are /called/ "fictitious" > forces.
In orbit about the Earth you don't feel a centrifugal force. Inertia is now the fictitous force. I don't care what the textbooks say, inertia is a fiction except at the moment of contact. Harry
