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What is Coriolis Force & what are its applications?
selfAdjoint said:The only thing I have to add to this is that "ficticious" is used in a special sense. Anyone who thinks Coriolis force is ficticious has never experienced a tornado or a hurricane.
Think of the Earth as thin disks rotatating about the Earth axis. Then think of an object on the surface of a disk and plot the forces. There is the force of gravity directed toward the centre of the earth, mg. There is also the centripetal force directed toward the Earth's axis along the plane of the disk.Reshma said:What is Coriolis Force & what are its applications?
quasar987 said:Symon (pp.279) gives the exemple of the action of a cream separator, for which it is much more convenient to adopt a point of view in which the liquid is at rest and use the law of diffusion to study the diffusion of the cream towards the axis under the action of the centrigugal force field, than to try to study the motion from the point of view of a fixed observer watching the whirling liquid.
And the book is even older! So old that it was one of my undergrad texts.jtbell said:(By the way, this thread is seven years old!)
Just pulled it off the shelf. Yep, fuchsia it is.jtbell said:I definitely remember it being a fuchsia sort of color.
The Coriolis force is a fictitious force that appears to act on objects moving in a rotating reference frame. It is a result of the Earth's rotation and causes objects in the Northern Hemisphere to veer to the right and objects in the Southern Hemisphere to veer to the left.
The Coriolis force plays a critical role in determining the direction of winds and ocean currents. It causes large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns, such as the trade winds and the Gulf Stream, to curve instead of moving in straight lines.
No, the Coriolis force only affects objects that are moving in a rotating reference frame, such as the Earth. It does not have a significant impact on objects moving at small scales, such as a thrown ball, as the rotation of the Earth is too slow to have a noticeable effect.
Yes, the Coriolis force can be observed on any rotating planet or celestial body. It is also responsible for the rotation of storms and weather patterns on other planets, such as Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
The Coriolis force is calculated using the Coriolis equation, which takes into account the rotation rate of the Earth, the velocity of the object, and the latitude at which the object is located. This equation is used in meteorology, oceanography, and other fields to model the effects of the Coriolis force.