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[edit] centripetal force/centrifugal force

Hi IstvanWolf, You wrote on my talk page:

Just for my own sanity, b/c this distinction between the two forces is maddening, is the centrifugal force simply the opposing component of the original motion vector? Is that essentially the name given to that force, since centripetal acc. pulls the object in and alters the original single vector into a composite one? I'm sure I'm not phrasing this properly, and if I had a diagram it'd be a lot easier. In fact, I think that a graphic is very much in order, as someone coming to this article with little knowledge of physics will be utterly confused by these discussions and formula. - IstvanWolf

The expression 'centrifugal force' is used in at least two different meanings, and I think several more. The two main meanings stand for two different and incompatible belief systems.

The current situation is that different wikipedia editors are trying hard to impose their belief system on the wikipedia article. As a consequence of that, the article is quite unreadable, and useless for anyone with little knowledge of physics. I don't see a solution. I have edited the centrifugal force article in the past, and I was pushing my own belief system, and others were pushing their belief system, and the article just becomes more and more unreadable and useless.

Generally, physics textbooks are written by a single person, or by a small group of closely collaborating authors. I guess that each textbook will use the expression 'centrifugal force' somewhat differently, depending on the preference of the author(s), but at least the expression is then used consistently within that textbook.

Because of the clashing belief systems, I don't think it is possible at all for wikipedia to have a comprehensible article about 'centrifugal force'. --Cleonis | Talk 07:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Maybe there are suitable diagrams. I like the following Java applets:
http://mensch.org/physlets/merry.html
http://mensch.org/physlets/inosc.html

I've tried to recreate the example of the merry-go-round with the following three animations that go together:
Image:Rotating fountain coriolis effect01.gif
Image:Rotating fountain coriolis effect02.gif
Image:Rotating fountain coriolis effect03.gif
But those animations were primarily designed to illustrate the coriolis term in the equation of motion for motion with respect to a rotating coordinate system. --Cleonis | Talk 08:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weight training

Thank you for your kind offer—and for mentioning it to me beforehand! I'm not sure what kind of material you were thinking of adding to this article, but it is by no means perfect, and could ceratinly do with expansion and improvement. One thing that I am particularly concerned about is the number (and quality) of the references, because there's a lot of articles being de-featured nowadays on that criteria alone. Also, there's a lot more that could be written about individual weight training exercises. But the article is getting about as long as it should reasonably be, so any big chunks of new material should probably go into subordinate articles. There are two already, but there's certainly scope for more. GeorgeStepanek\talk 07:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

That would be splendid! I've taken a few photos (shown in weight training exercises) that may be of use—I hope. GeorgeStepanek\talk 11:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ASP.NET

I reverted your recent changes to the wikilinks on this page. Many Wikipedia articles use the singular form as their official article name, e.g. "Programmer", "Web site"... there are additional redirect articles that capture the plural form and redirect the user to the singular form. When you see an article that contains a singular-form wikilink followed by an 's', e.g. [[Programmer]]s, the Mediawiki software is smart enough to include the trailing letter as part of the wikilink. We do this so that jumping through an unnecessary redirect is avoided, lowering the amount of work the servers need to do to show you the page you've asked for. Keep this in mind for future editing. Thanks! Warrens 05:19, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Writer's voice

Thanks for the help. Great rewrite by the way. EliasAlucard|Talk 20:36, 24 May, 2006 (UTC+1)

[edit] Cleanup Template

My bot, User:Alphachimpbot has just modified some of your cleanup templates. I just figured I would tell you... {{Cleanup|MONTH YEAR}} is not a valid template. Use {{Cleanup-date|MONTH YEAR}} instead. Just figured that I would tell you. --Alphachimp talk 16:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] XP-70

Hi IstvanWolf - are you still working on the XP-70 page? trolleymusic 04:16, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, the History Channel article/video was what I was looking at before I looked up XP-70 on wikipedia. Thanks for the link to XB-70 too, I'm still interested to read about the aircraft :) trolleymusic 02:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jellybeans

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Here are some Jelly Beans for you.. I love Jellybeans as they have sugar in them and most people love sugar.. But on the other hand just recieving somthing from somone else just makes you happy and also just giving this to you makes me happy.. I hope to spread the Jellybeans all over Wikipedia so here you can have this lot.. I hope you enjoy these Jelly Beans.. (I Like the Lime ones)

Editors need a bit of a Sugar Hype too..

An Apple a day keeps -The Doctor- Away.. Or does it! (talk)(contribs) 02:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

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