What is Pseudoforce?
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It’s a force that looks like a force and can be measured like a force, but doesn’t work like a force normally does. So for example, if you’re sitting inside an accelerating car, you get pushed back into the seats, so it feels like you’re pushing the car backwards. Now if you were to use this force and plug it into the formular of acceleration of the car, you would get a result that the car is slowly accelerating backwards.
Obviously, you can’t do that. In reality, the force you measure is the car pushing you forwards. It’s just that from your perspective, it’s the other way around, because you’re sitting inside an accelerating car. That is why it’s called a pseudoforce and not a force.
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