Coriolis force

The above is the earth seen from the sky above the north pole. If objects are thrown in the direction of respective red arrows from points a , b a, b and c c of the earth's surface, what are the respective directions of the flights as observed from the pole's sky?

B - C - E A - C - E B - D - F A - C -F

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1 solution

Snehal Shekatkar
Feb 17, 2014

I am sorry but I think A-D-E is the correct answer and not A-C-E. Lakshan, can you please recheck the problem?

sme here brother.......

Vighnesh Raut - 7 years, 3 months ago

I don't know, please explain for this problem.

Vladimir Tsiolkovsky - 7 years, 2 months ago

it ll be ace as when it ll o to equator force of south pole is more than north pole

alan alan - 7 years, 2 months ago

ADE should be the correct answer sir. Please clarify the doubt. Thank you.

vaibhav sharma - 7 years ago

The earth rotates from west-to-east or right to left. One way to visualize the way Coriolis force operates we must first describe how objects move on a rotating reference frame. We can demonstrate this on a merry-go-around. Let's say there is a child on the edge of the merry-go-round and a child at the center of the merry-go-round. The only difference between these two children are their distance from the center of the rotating system. The angular velocity of the person on the edge of the rotating system is much greater than the child at the center. This is because is for formula where v=d/t the person closer to the edge is traveling a larger distance within the same time frame of rotation as the person closer to the center.So therefore, objects that are at the equator are moving with a faster velocity than objects moving closer to the equator.Now if you were to throw an object from the equator to the north pole it would maintain its angular velocity and will deviate to the right of the throwers original throwing position, because it's velocity at the equator is much faster than that of the north pole. The same for the object traveling from the north to the equator except the object would deviate to the left. Since we are looking at the perspective of above the planet we can see this being demonstrated. Therefore A-C-E is correct. I am not sure why you guys believe it is A-D-E.

Daniel Estevez - 1 year, 8 months ago

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