Re: [Phys-l] Coriolis effect puzzlement

[Bennett <bennett@oakland.edu>]

Why has no one mentioned the vertical component of airflow?





On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Paul Nord <Paul.Nord@valpo.edu> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Your confusion may be simply this:  The pictures of the clouds are not
> measurements of the motion.  The shapes are formed because the wind has
> been moving in particular patterns.  The clouds will maintain their shape
> in a still photo whether that photo is taken from the ground, from a moving
> plane, or from the surface of the moon.
>
> Paul
>
> On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
>
> > A puzzlement (or a dumb question) ===>
> >
> > Why is the Coriolis effect observed in pictures taken from airplanes?  Is
> > the airplane camera in a rotating frame?
> >
> > I refer, for example, to Figure 12 of
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect.
> >
> > The cloud rotation does not seem to be merely “relative to the ground” –
> the
> > ground isn’t even visible.
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