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Centrifugal Force and D' Alembert's Principle

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I agree so cordially with the greater part of Prof. Minchin's address to the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, delivered on January 19, 1889, and reported in NATURE of June 6, p. 126, that I feel the more induced to enter a protest against his remarks on the subject of “centrifugal force.”

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GUTHRIE, F. Centrifugal Force and D' Alembert's Principle. Nature 40, 319–320 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040319c0

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