Coriolis Effect Explanation - Ecuador
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so used to seeing redsox hats that i didnt really care
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wat an idiot he is?!!
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@jadenephrite his accent sounds fun.
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1 advise, if you dont speak english very well at least talk slower.
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isnt that a child hood myth?
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what a bunch of crap
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rigth! it effects with ~10^-4 1/s! you can only see it on weather-phenomens... water drains much too fast for the coriolisforce.
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The Coriolis effect is so weak that it would not cause any bearing on the rotation of draining water in your bathroom. The main factors in the direction of the swirl is the design of toilet/sink etc.
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All is wrong here. Total BS for tourists to pay a few bucks !
The spinning of the globe seems to have too much mesmerizing effect.
Seriously, the only thing that could have been remarkable in the story is to show a Foucault pendulum there perhaps. Problem : it is not so much fun for tourists to see something oscillate and not turn... Go back to Paris then ... ;)
Newtoon 4 years ago 3
His accent and the poor sound recording makes it difficult to understand what he is saying. He said as he was spinning the globe that " these two forces are centrifugal forces, okay?" Actually they are not centrifugal forces. They are, instead, coriolis forces. Laymen confuse these two fictitious forces when dealing with a rotating frame of reference.The comment by pauloxaxb is correct. These coriolis forces cause cyclones to spin in opposite directions north or south of the equator.
jadenephrite 3 years ago 2