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Roller coasters

I wondered about the paragraph on amusement rides, where it is said that they usually don't pull over 3 g with some listed exceptions. However, according to "rcdb.com" and other coaster-related sources, almost every looping coaster on the world pulls about 4-5 g on entering the loop (e.g. the Vekoma Boomerang which is found in many parks around the world is said to pull 5.2 g on its first inversion).—Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.203.254.65 (talk • contribs)

No reference to justify topic or opening statements

The article starts off with the following two statements. "The gravitational force, or more commonly, g-force, is a measurement of the type of acceleration that causes a perception of weight. Despite the name, it is incorrect to consider g-force a fundamental force, as "g-force" is a type of acceleration that can be measured with an accelerometer".

But there are no references following the two statements. The references at the end of the first paragraph do not in any way justify these two statements. It appears that this topic of g-force is something that has been made up but has no justification anywhere in the literature. RHB100 (talk) 21:29, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

citation #36.

Firefox warned me not to proceed to the second link "The original". the first link to the wayback machine is ok.I am not experienced at editing. Please email me at rickgellert@hotmail.com with subject "G-Force" to let me know when this is fixed. ThanksThatrick (talk) 04:09, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 7 January 2022

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Procedural close. Editor BarrelProof is correct in that a page move is not needed for this proposed change. Suggest this be discussed in a new section where editors can decide whether or not to remove {{Lowercase|G-Force}} from the 7th line. Thanks and kudos to all editors for your input, and Happy, Healthy Editing! (nac by page mover) P.I. Ellsworth - ed.  03:07, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

g-force → G-force – COMMONNAME; the capitalised form is by far the normal form in English, by leaps and bounds. And only in rare and exceptional cases do we have our article titles be in lower case; making such an exception for something that is almost never, unless it's in French, written with in lower care in the real world is bassackwards, is jarring to readers, and is confusing. 2600:1702:4960:1DE0:10BA:9558:7F4:32F (talk) 23:46, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Comment: I think this is about the {{Lowercase|G-Force}} at the beginning of the article, which displays the letter 'G' in lowercase. At first I thought it was about capitalizing the "f" in "force". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 00:23, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Oppose This is the force due to gravitational acceleration. In all of my studies, gravitational accelleration has been represented as "g". This n-gram would indicate about equal usage of the capped/uncapped versions of "g". The guidance at WP:AT (throught ultimately at MOS:CAPS is that we would rely only cap if this is done in a significant majority (nearly always) of sources. The evidence is that it should be "g-force" in running text. The article consistently uses lowercase. To how it should be in the title is a different matter. WP:TITLEFORMAT states: Titles are written in sentence case. The initial letter of a title is almost always capitalized by default .... MOS:LCITEMS gives guidance on names of units of physical quantities or their symbols - that they should always retain their specific case. In that respect, the article title is correct - ie "g-force". Cinderella157 (talk) 01:02, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Definition?

The article currently defines g-force as:

The g-force experienced by an object is due to the vector sum of all non-gravitational and non-electromagnetic forces acting on an object's freedom to move.

So what are these forces? Strong nuclear force? Weak nuclear force? Is there some fifth force that I don't know about?

"Mechanical" forces where one thing touches another (and both are ordinary matter) are due to electric field repulsion between the electrons in the outer shell of their atoms. So this definition doesn't make any sense. Perhaps if it came from a cited source I could check to see what the actual source says. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 14:14, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

I removed the non-electromagnetic portion of the definition. Makes more sense now. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 14:36, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Problem

The title of the article "g-force" starts with small letter. JelloMello24 (talk) 20:14, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

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