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Consider a bullet shot with a horizontal velocity in the space over a
rotating platform. An overhead camera, fixed in space in an inertial
frame,
would record a straight line trajectory of this bullet. It sees no
Coriolis
effect. [1]
A camera rotating with the rotating platform would record a curved
trajectory, due to a Coriolis effect. If the bullet could leave a track on
the rotating
platform, it too would have the Coriolis curvature. The Coriolis effect is
an inertial effect, due to the rotation of an observer's/recorder’s
reference frame.
If the space fixed camera records a curvature, it must be due to some real
forces, certainly not a Coriolis effect.