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잘못 알려진 코리올리 효과

과학동아 1997년 03호

But, the Coriolis force is very small, indeed.Compared to the rotations that one usually sees (tires on a travelling automobile, a compact disc playing music, or a draining sink), the rotation of the earth is very small: only one rotation per day. The water in a sink might make a rotation in a few seconds and so have a rotation rate ten thousand times higher than that of the earth. It should ...