Italian scientist Giovanni Battista Riccioli and his assistant Francesco Maria Grimaldi described the effect in connection … See more

In Newtonian mechanics, the equation of motion for an object in an inertial reference frame is:
where is the vector sum of the physical forces acting on the object, is the mass of the object, … See more

For an intuitive explanation of the origin of the Coriolis force, consider an object, constrained to follow the Earth's surface and moving northward in the Northern Hemisphere. Viewed from outer space, the object doe… See more

The time, space, and velocity scales are important in determining the importance of the Coriolis force. Whether rotation is important in a system can be determined by its Rossby number, which is the ratio of the velocity, U, … See more

The figure illustrates a ball tossed from 12:00 o'clock toward the center of a counter-clockwise rotating carousel. On the left, the ball is seen by a stationary observer above the carousel, and the ball travels in a … See more