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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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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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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?
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