Timeline for Do planets experience coriolis effect in terms of rotation around a star?
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| Mar 22, 2023 at 17:50 | comment | added | Amit | There is a possible way to think about this, which may help: if the orbit is near circular, you can imagine the planet being attached to a rotating disc which just happens to rotate at the same speed. Clearly, there are Coriolis effects on this disc. Now, since our planet is supposedly not a point mass but has some area along the plane of the orbit, the Coriolis effect of our entire imaginary disc will extend to it as well. | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 17:34 | answer | added | JEB | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 16:21 | comment | added | AtmosphericPrisonEscape | @JohnRennie Your comment addresses a different issue - but it made me think - is there a tensor-based derivation of the Coriolis pseudforce, or is it as simple as substracting the frame motion into the centrifugal term? | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 15:42 | comment | added | John Rennie | It is not just time distortion that causes the object to move in a curve. It is certainly true that is is mostly the curvature associated with the time coordinate because the time component of the 4 velocity is usually the largest, but all the curvature terms (the Christoffel symbols) affect the motion. So your question is based on a false premise. For more on this see Why does mass bend the temporal dimension more than the spatial dimensions of spacetime?. | |
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| S Mar 22, 2023 at 15:39 | history | asked | Andrew Shaban | CC BY-SA 4.0 |