Timeline for Will a laser beam be affected by the Coriolis Force?
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| Mar 13, 2014 at 10:00 | vote | accept | Folau | ||
| Mar 13, 2014 at 9:05 | comment | added | Davidmh | The laser would be slightly bent downwards due to the gravitational pull, but almost nothing. If your target is 10 000 km away (a quarter of the Earth), the light will be there in 33 ms, which means that, if the gravity was uniform, it would have deflected the beam 5 mm. In reality, of course, this would be much less, as the gravity reduces with height. | |
| Mar 13, 2014 at 7:56 | answer | added | gigacyan | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 13, 2014 at 1:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhysics/status/443925023850778624 | ||
| Mar 13, 2014 at 1:06 | history | edited | Folau | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added extra bit.
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| Mar 13, 2014 at 1:00 | history | asked | Folau | CC BY-SA 3.0 |