Paper 4, Section II, A
Part IA, 2019
An inertial frame and another reference frame have a common origin , and rotates with angular velocity vector with respect to . Derive the results (a) and (b) below, where dot denotes a derivative with respect to time :
(a) The rates of change of an arbitrary vector in frames and are related by
(b) The accelerations in and are related by
where is the position vector relative to .
Just after passing the South Pole, a ski-doo of mass is travelling on a constant longitude with speed . Find the magnitude and direction of the sideways component of apparent force experienced by the ski-doo. [The sideways component is locally along the surface of the Earth and perpendicular to the motion of the ski-doo.]