Timeline for What would a physically correct term be for "artificial gravity by rotation"?
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 16:08 | vote | accept | LocalFluff | ||
| Apr 17, 2015 at 12:18 | comment | added | LocalFluff | Sorry, but I removed my approval of your answer, although it is great, because I think that Taemyr's new answer needs to be considered. It is the astronauts who need microgravity mitigation, so maybe centrifugal force is the relevant terminology? Might contain the coriolis effect which in "simulated gravity" depends on the method used, like linear acceleration without it for a while. @Taemyr | |
| Mar 31, 2015 at 9:01 | comment | added | neelsg | If you want to specifically refer to the effect created by rotating a spacecraft, you can use "centrifuge simulated gravity" to describe the effect and "simulated gravity centrifuge" to describe the device, because you are using a centrifuge to simulate gravity. | |
| Mar 31, 2015 at 8:33 | vote | accept | LocalFluff | ||
| Apr 17, 2015 at 12:04 | |||||
| Mar 31, 2015 at 8:10 | history | answered | neelsg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |