  Models for polarization drag - mechanical analog of the Faraday effect - are
extended to include inertial corrections to the dielectrics properties of the
rotating medium in its rest-frame. Instead of the Coriolis-Faraday term
originally proposed by Baranova & Zel'dovich, inertia corrections due to the
fictitious Coriolis and centrifugal forces are here derived by considering the
effect of rotation on both the Lorentz and plasma dielectric models. These
modified rest-frame properties are subsequently used to deduce laboratory
properties. Although elegant and insightful, it is shown that the
Coriolis-Faraday correction inferred from Larmor's theorem is limited in that
it can only capture inertial corrections to polarization drag when the
equivalent Faraday rotation is defined at the wave frequency of interest. This
is notably not the case for low frequency polarization drag in a rotating
magnetized plasma, although it is verified here using the more general
phenomenological models that the impact of fictitious forces is in general
negligible in these conditions.
