❓What is the form of the centrifugal force in component notation before identifying the tensor?
The centrifugal force in component notation is: . This formula takes the difference between the i-th component of two terms-one parallel to (Term 1) and one parallel to x (Term 2)-multiplies the result by the mass m, and yields the i-th component of the centrifugal force. This rearrangement isolates the dependence on the position components ( and ) so the coefficient of x can be cleanly identified as the centrifugal tensor .
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