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The cosmos loves irony. While trying to prove that the Earth is fixed in space, an Italian priest described something similar to the Coriolis effect – the slight deflection experienced by objects ...

On the rotating Earth, a moving object deviates from a straight line, being deflected to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. The deflecting force is named ...

In probably 95 percent of tornado occurrences the wind circulation is counterclockwise, but not all of the time. In the majority of tornadoes, air spirals into a tornado in a large counterclockwise ...

Coriolis, Gaspard Gustave De: (1792-1843) The French engineer and mathematician who, in 1835, showed that the laws of motion may be used on a rotating frame of reference (like the Earth) if an inertia ...

It is an apparent force caused by the earth's rotation. The coriolis force is responsible for deflection of winds towards the right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern hemisphere.

We all remember the Simpsons' trip to Australia when their toilet was programmed to swirl the American way. It turns out that the direction a toilet flushes is not determined by the hemisphere it’s in ...