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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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Hurricanes and bathtubs
Why do hurricane winds rotate? I know it´s about Coriolis force but how can I be quantitative? My problem is that I can´t imagine the direction velocity of wind and the angle with earth angular ...
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Equation of Motion in a Non-Inertial (Rotating) Frame
Let me preface my question by informing you this is for an assignment, so I would rather not have explicit answers but rather be given guidance in arriving at the correct solution.
The question is ...
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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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Why there's a whirl when you drain the bathtub?
At first I thought it's because of Coriolis, but then someone told me that at the bathtub scale that's not the predominant force in this phenomenon.
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“Artificial gravity” on a rotating space stations
There have been a lot of sci-fi shows recently using the "rotating space station" explanation for gravity on space stations.
After watching these videos:
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Coriolis effect on Tsunami
The Japanese tsunami, moving at about 700 km/h, affected areas as distant as Chile's coast, 20 hours after the earthquake. How does the Coriolis force affect tsunami? Also, I saw an image of a boat ...
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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?
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Resolving water sink problem
There is a common myth that water flowing out from a sink should rotate in direction governed by on which hemisphere we are; this is shown false in many household experiments, but how to show it ...
