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Yes good question. Sorry I was under the impression that, precisely for my thinking up there, namely that "going up in the northern" is...

Isn't going "up" in the south hemisphere, far as the coriolis force is concerned, the same as going "down" in the northern? (up and down...

Thank you all for your comments. I agree with the corrections to my drawing and with the expression of the coriolis acceleration, namely...

Yes. The Z plane goes vertically up from the place. Y is along the north direction from the place P. Rotation of the earth is in the...

The earth rotates in the Y-Z plane. It's angular velocity vector ##\vec\Omega_0## makes an angle of ##\lambda## with the Y axis and...

Attempt : I start by copying and pasting the diagram for the problem to the right. The rocket marked with R hurls "up" along the z axis...

I copy and paste the relavant paragraphs and images from the text. I might have to do it several times, each time underlining in red...