I'm no where near knowledgeable enough to be reading these books but I'm definitely learning along the way and doing my best. When the characters on Ceres refer to the Coriolis effect being much more intense the closer to the center they get on the station verses further out - can anyone explain to me in simpleton talk why that is? I've been doing research but can seem to fully grasp it.

Hi everyone, I just started studying physics and I was studying fictitious forces. From what I understand since the earth isn’t an inertial frame of reference we have to consider those forces. So I was thinking, every time we throw a ball since we are in a rotating sistem aren’t we supposed to see it curves. In an inertial frame of reference it’s going straight, but since we are rotating how come we don’t see this?

So, during a debate on another thread I encountered a flat Earther making the following claim:

>No military take curvature or spin into account for any targeting. This is a very old argument.Seems you are just regurgitating the same old arguments. Everything in your comment has not only been disproven, it has been absolutely destroyed in reality.

This surprised me, as it is extremely well-understood that militaries do take these factors into account. That individual has elected not to review any of this evidence (no surprise), but I felt it would go to waste languishing ten comments deep in a flat Earth thread, so I reprise it here.

I submit that in fact there is a strong body of evidence that militaries do have to account for Earth's rotation when aiming ballistic weaponry at long ranges.

I will break this down into evidence sections for organisation... this is only a fraction of the evidence out there, but I have to stop somewhere :)

Primary Military Sources

• US Marine Corps Field Manual dealing with manual cannon aiming. Tables H and I on p210 are titled;

>CORRECTIONS TO RANGE/AZIMUTH TO COMPENSATE FOR THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH.

There is also explicit discussion of it throughout the text, here on p399;

>compensate for the effects of ballistic wind direction and speed and for rotation of the earth throughout the firing unit’s area of responsibility. These corrections are combined with the position constants determined in the concurrent met by solving a subsequent met in each 800-mil sector or selected 800-mil sectors. (See Figure 11-32.)

• An article breaking down the same figures found in the US Army's Field Manual which correspond to the Marines. (here's an earlier version), relevant section on p12;

>*Rotation of Earth.Although the rotation of the earth is a natural phenomenon, it is treated as a nonstandard condition for simplicity in the construction of firing tables. The magnitude and direction of projectile displace-ment from the target owing to rotational effects are functions of azimuth of fire, time of flight, projectile velocity, and relative position of piece and target with respect to the Equato

I am trying to understand the Coriolis effect as it applies to big weather systems on Earth. General advice is welcome, but I have a few specific questions on the following three sources.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force
2. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-090-introduction-to-fluid-motions-sediment-transport-and-current-generated-sedimentary-structures-fall-2006/course-textbook/ch7.pdf (cited in the above wikipedia article)
3. https://stratus.ssec.wisc.edu/courses/gg101/coriolis/coriolis.html

However, feel free to ignore my specific questions if I'm on the wrong track.

(I promise this is not for homework; I'm an old person trying to understand this book by a social historian about El Niño.)

Question 1:

The wikipedia article (source 1) says the following:

>Rather than flowing directly from areas of high pressure to low pressure, as they would in a non-rotating system, winds and currents tend to flow to the right of this direction north of the equator (anticlockwise) and to the left of this direction south of it (clockwise).

Q1: What do they mean here by "right" and "left"? My first thought was that they meant "right" or "left" from the perspective of the direction of travel from high-pressure to low-pressure areas. My second thought was that they meant "right"="east" and "left"="west." If my first thought was correct, then I have trouble understanding why the article describes "right" as anticlockwise and "left" as clockwise.

Questions 2-3:

The MIT notes (source 2) say (top of p11) that the magnitude of the Coriolis force acting on an object moving due east or due west is the same as that acting on an object moving due north or due south.

In particular, I assume this means that the same "mechanism" that le

I understood the concept overall; the center of the planet goes faster than the poles, this makes things deflect, iaraiaraiara.

But, there's something I don't get...why do stuff deflect to the right when moving to the northern emisphere, and left when going to the southern one? The difference in velocity due to being further away from the equators is simetrical, isn't it? what causes this difference in direction?

Yk, the thing that causes the wind currents to go around counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere..

Edit: none of y'all have given even a semblance of an answer, won't engage in a diplomatic conversation and instead give some nonsense reply or no reply at all. Once again proving that trying to ask a question or engage in a conversation with you smooth brained flatheads is pointless and a waste of time.

So, I’m reading the 6th book and, as usual, every single time the characters move, the Coriolis Effect is mentioned. For example “the offices were located nearer the surface, where the Coriolis Effect is weaker”.
Could someone give me some example of how one would feel under the Coriolis Effect? I tried to look what the effect is, but it got me even more confused 🤷‍♂️

It's the first Aggressive frame. Basically it has the charge time of an adaptive, but the damage of a high impact. The catch is that it shoots horizontally instead of vertically so it has pretty low range.

PS, it's also bugged and gives you 15 ammo per brick, even in Crucible. Eat your heart out gamers

If someone standing in a rotating wheel space station poured water straight down, it would not fall the way one would expect on Earth but land some distance away because of the Coriolis effect. My question is, once the water hit the floor would it remain in that one spot or flow across the floor in a direction dictated by the direction of the spin of the station?

It is my understanding that the coriolis effect causes winds to "drift" towards the right in the northern hemisphere. However, there are currently several weather systems here, all spinning towards the left, not right (counterclockwise). Can someone explain this to me in very simple language?

I'm trying to learn how to calculate ballistics but can't seem to understand coriolis effect.

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So I've been watching Sweet Life on Deck through again and i have come to S2 E8 and Cody and Bailey are arguing over the Coriolis effect and i just want to know.. Did The Coriolis effect apply in their circumstance?

Hello.

I was wondering if deep water currents are affected by the coriolis effect. I have read about Ekman transport and how the coriolis effect plays a role in surface currents, but I was wondering if a similar process could occur in deep water currents? When I look at a map of the ocean currents, all I see for deep water currents is a relatively straight path from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere, and then around Antarctica and up into the Pacific. I know they are density-driven, but shouldn't they deflect a little due to the coriolis effect as they move?

Thanks!

why is there an absence of coriolis force in the equator?

Does the Coriolis effect have to do solely with a planets speed of rotation or does it also have to do with its size.

Flat earthers please explain why the Coriolis effect/force works the way it does on a flat earth. Note the strength of the force is highest at the polls, goes down to almost nothing at the equator and then is reverse in the Southern Hemisphere from the direction it moves in the Northern Hemisphere.