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Re: The Coriolis Effect
Posted By: Travholt, on host 193.69.109.2
Date: Friday, February 2, 2001, at 04:58:44
In Reply To: Re: The Coriolis Effect posted by Wolfspirit on Thursday, February 1, 2001, at 17:39:15:

> Yeah. I think it's pretty funny that on the q_drainingwater.htm "Coriolis Effect Explained and Demythologized," they get the current flow directions backward:
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> "The coriolis force is what causes ocean currents, for instance, to flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclokwise down under. The coriolis force only works on very big things like oceans, though."

Also, they wrongly refer to it as a *force*, although it's just an *effect*.

Trav"there is no centrifugal force, either"holt.