The Coriolis effect is when an object appears to turn due to the observer not standing still, usually turning in a circle.
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- Bad Coriolis Explains common behaviors that teachers sometimes wrongly teach their students.
- Wikipedia: Coriolis Effect Gives the formula, and has pictures to help visualize the effect.
- Coriolis Effect Diagrams help explain the Coriolis effect.
- UKDivers.net: The Coriolis Effect Overview of the Coriolis effect, and how it influences the trade winds.
- Observe How the Coriolis Effect Influences Wind Direction. Animation showing how the winds should blow without the Coriolis effect, and how they actually blow.
- Coriolis Effect Experiment to see the Coriolis effect which uses a turntable or globe, a ruler and chalk.
- The Coriolis Effect Offers a fairly simple explanation of why objects curve on the Earth when they should move straight.
- The Coriolis Effect Revisited Offers an illustration of how an object moving in a straight path on a rotating sphere will be seen by an observer that is not rotating.
- Coriolis Force Tells how the Coriolis effect is caused by the Earth's rotation.
- Spinning Brains Offers pictures and a movie which help explain the Coriolis effect.