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Coriolis force and liquid on a rotating space station?
On a rotating wheel space station crewed by humans with sea-level conditions (temperature above the freezing point), if liquid was spilled on the floor am I correct in understanding that the Coriolis ...
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Coriolis effect vs preservation of angular momentum on merry-go-round, sniper's bullet, hovering helicopter and high altitude rockets
I understand that how helicopter hovers at the same position or a thrown ball falls to the same position even though earth is spinning. This is due to the preservation of angular momentum and my ...
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Scalar versus invariant in Newtonian mechanics
I looking up coriolis transport theorem for rotating refrence frames and while reading through this derivation he wrote:
In Newtonian mechanics, scalar quantities must be invariant for any
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Coriolis Effect vs airplane
So, if I build a highway from north pole towards equator and sit in a car, speed pretty fast towards it, I should feel force with the Earths rotation due to the different rotation speeds of this ...
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