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Re: QR diesel tilt train design released.
- Subject: Re: QR diesel tilt train design released.
- From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 05:29:33 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Another Optus Customer
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John McCandless (johnmc@topend.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> I have heard this before, unfortunately it was in an Arthur C. Clarke novel
> :-(. I have taken it on spec, on the basis that
It's in any high school physics text. The force is actually a centripetal
force pointing in the direction of the centre of rotation.
Cheers
David