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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Bennett
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:50 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Coriolis effect puzzlement
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) ===>the
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" -
ground isn't even visible.
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