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What happens at the end of Coriolis Deflection
Consider we launch a cannonball due south from a point at 45 degrees latitude in the Northern Hemisphere (e.g the point defined with the co-ordinate system on this diagram). The cannonball travels for ...
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Coriolis force in free fall
Does the coriolis force has any measurable effect in free fall from large heights?
Take for example the sky diving experiment by F. Baumgartner who started from a height of about 40 km above New ...
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Why can't we feel the Earth turning?
The Earth turns with a very high velocity, around its own axis and around the Sun.
So why can't we feel that it's turning, but we can still feel earthquake.
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Artificial Gravity - Spinning Station Questions II
In an answer to Artificial Gravity - Spinning Station Questions Vintage wrote:
A theoretical space station of radius 900 meters, doing a complete rotation every 60 seconds (in order to generate ...
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The Coriolis force bending a railway
Suppose a very long railway line goes from South Africa to Sweden, and
then it's decided to move the entire railway line, sliding it 1 km to the north (leaving aside the difficulty of moving and ...
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Which direction will Coriolis forces deflect a bubble?
If I throw a ball straight up, it deflects slightly to the west due to Coriolis forces. If instead I watch a bubble float up in water, is the bubble deflected west, east, or neither?
I think the ...
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Derivation of the centrifugal and coriolis force
I was wondering how easily these two pseudo-forces can be derived mathematically in order to exhibit a clear physical meaning.
How would you proceed?
